Dancing Cancer

About the Book

Dancing Cancer is a children’s book that offers hope and support to all those touched by cancer. The author shares her long time survivorship cancer story. It is about a little girl who had her first cancer at age three. She loved to dance and move. Even though her cancer returned she continued to follow her hopes and dreams. Good medical help, diet, exercise, positive attitude, and faith all lead to her healing. It is an inspirational book that encourages one to have faith and follow their dreams.

About the Author

Linda McDonald is a three time cancer survivor. She has taught all levels from pre-school through college and worked with deaf, blind, mentally and physically disabled, prisoners, senior adults and cancer survivors.  She combines her education, dance, and therapeutic exercise experience and conducts workshops and clinics for various professional, business, educational, and service organizations: such as the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, AARP, National Endowment for the Arts, Association for the Education of Young Children, Department of Corrections, Dance Educators of America, American Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, National Parent Teachers Association, Parrish Nurses Association, YMCA, National Arthritis Foundation, Presbyterian Church, International Senior Theater, The Wellness Community, Moffitt Cancer Center, IBM, Coca-Cola, General Foods and others. She was a US delegate to the World Health Organization Congress on Aging, Physical Acti vity, and Sports in Heidelberg, Germany. She served as a US representative on an international delegation to China for dance and dance education. She is a certified trainer for the medically based therapeutic exercise, Healthy Steps/LeBed, program that is used in over 800 hospitals and centers in the US and fourteen countries.