NEW YORK (AP) — A new book from bestselling author Alice Paul Tapper, daughter of CNN anchor Jake Tapper, is inspired by a deadly health emergency.
Use Your Voice, illustrated by Fannie Ream, is a fictionalized account of Alice’s hospitalization in 2021 after experiencing severe abdominal pain, chills, and vomiting, which turned out to be appendicitis. After Jake Tapper begged hospital administrators, her doctors misdiagnosed her condition as a viral infection and performed only an ultrasound, which revealed a hole in her appendix and poisonous bacteria. It turned out that it was leaking.
Penguin Workshop, an organization of Penguin Young Readers, will release Use Your Voice on August 27, the author’s 17th birthday.
“I’m so excited to share this book and empower children who visit hospitals, which can be a scary place, not just for children, but for everyone,” Alice Paul Tapper said in a statement Wednesday. said. “The characters in this book, who are part of the pain graph, are an expression of my thought process from when I was sick, and while understanding the need for readers to listen to their bodies, I hope you enjoy it.”
Tapper is also the author of the 2019 bestseller “Raise Your Hand,” about the need for girls to be heard in the classroom.