Cloud Babies by Eoin Colfer

Erin’s favourite game is spotting animals in the clouds with her mum & dad – everything from foxes & polar bears to little rabbits! She calls them her ‘cloud babies’. One day, Erin falls very ill. She has to spend a long time in hospital but she still manages to find comfort & joy in spying cloud babies through the windows with her hospital friends. When Dr Bernadette tells Erin that even though there would still be some ‘hospital days’, she can now go home, she is so excited. But being back at school is not at all that she expected. So much has changed. Erin must reconcile the comforting, safe world she has built for herself inside the hospital with the world outside that has now become unfamiliar to her. But with her Mum & Dad’s love & guidance, & with the support of her teacher & friends, Erin realizes that by sharing her world, & her cloud babies, she will find happiness in being herself once more.