The Emily Center is a pediatric consumer health library at the Phoenix Children's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.  It has a large collection of books, videos, pamphlets, and articles on many subjects in child health and illness.

Their staff can help you search health databases and the internet.  You can contact the staff by email:  emilyc@phoenixchildrens.com.

You can find out what books & videos they have by visiting the Phoenix Public Library web site.  Click www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org , click on "Advanced Catalog Search," go to the bottom of the page and click on the "Limit By Library" button, and click on "The Emily Center."

Here is a sampling of available books for adults and children.

Books for Parents

The Parent's Guide to Children's Congenital Heart Disease,  Kramer, 2001

The Heart of a Child,  Neill

Congenital Diseases:  Of the Heart,  Rudolph, 2001

Matty's Heart:  A Childs and Parents Guide to Open Heart Surgery, Clabough, 1995

Mayo Clinic Heart Book, 2nd Edition, Gersh, 2000

Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Hennein and Bove, 2002

Pediatric Heart Surgery:  A Ready Reference for Professionals, May, 1999

Heart Defects in Children:  What Every Parent Should Know, Wild, 1999

Understanding and Diagnosing Pediatric Heart Disease, Sapire, 1991

The Human Heart:  A basic Guide to Heart Disease, Phibbs, 1997

Moving Right Along After Heart Surgery, Burrows and Gassert, 1990

Eat Smart for a Healthy Heart, Cooley and Moore, 1987

Nadas' Pediatric Cardiology, Fyler, 1992

Pediatric Cardiology, Johnson and Moller, 2001

Pediatric Cardiology:  An Introduction, Archer and Burch, 1998

A Parent's Guide to Heart Disorders, Moller, 1998

Cardiac Catheterization and Other Cardiac Diagnostic Tests and Radiological Procedures, Purcell, 1987

Yale University School f Medicine Heart Book, Zaret, 1992

Mark, The Peanut Butter Kid, Billups, 1999

Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Rychik and Wermovsky, 2003

Videos

Parent Education:  Pediatric Angiography, Winthrop Pharmaceuticals, 1989

EZ ECG's, Mosby Year Book, Inc., 1994

Scientific American Frontiers Affairs of the Heart, PBS, 2000

Audio

Heart Sounds and Murmurs:  A Practical Guide, Erickson, 1991

Young Adult and Children's Collection

Getting to Know Your Heart, American Heart Association, 1990

Cardiac Kids, Elder, 1994

So... You are Going to Have a Heart Catherization, Hanish and Barkey, 1990

Heart Smart, Huesman, 1994

The Heart of our Circulatory System, Simon, 1996

Heartbeats -- Your Body, Your Heart, Silverstein, 1996

Hear Your Heart, Showers, 1968

Children's Help Your Heart Cookbook, Jackson and Clark, 1980

There Are Some Things More Important Than Baseball, Huesman, 1994

Songs From the Heart, American Heart Association, 1981

Your Heart Test, Phillips and Bowen, 1983

Videos

Wizard of Oz Searches for a Heart, American Heart Association

Getting to Know Your Heart, American Heart Association, 1988