"This book is a testament to the extraordinary depth, powers, and resiliency of children\'s spirits." --Marion Wright Edelman, president, Children\'s Defense Fund If I Get to Five is a one-of-a-kind book by a one-of-a-kind human being.
He is the co-author of Wrestling.
Joshua Horwitz is the president of Living Planet Books, a book-packaging firm that specializes in health, psychology, and spirituality titles.
Epstein lives with his wife and Children in Greenwich, Connecticut.
D., is the founding director of the Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
about the Author: Fred Epstein, M.
No one who reads this remarkable book will ever look at children--or adversity--in the same way.
But most compelling of all is the journey inside the hearts, minds, and souls of the wisest Children you will ever encounter.
If I Get to Five takes us inside a world unlike any other, from the high-stakes, high-tech operating room where life and death are separated by a heartbeat to the sickrooms and recovery rooms where parents discover the limits and power of their faith.
Most of all, they Teach lessons about uncommon courage--the Courage to do what\'s hardest, to believe in What we don\'t understand, to love without boundaries.
In this inspiring book, these Children Teach us the lessons we all need to learn in order to live life to the fullest--lessons about seizing the moment and facing our deepest fears, about embracing the joy and wonder of everyday life.
They are Children who--often by sheer force of will--have refused to relinquish life and all its gifts.
Throughout his career Epstein\'s young patients have been his most important teachers and trusted guides.
Fred, the "miracle man" who has extended them both a healing hand and an open heart.
His patients and their families know him simply as Dr.
D., the neurosurgeon who pioneered life-saving procedures for previously inoperable tumors in children.
The medical world knows him as Fred Epstein, M. "This book is a testament to the extraordinary depth, powers, and resiliency of children\'s spirits." --Marion Wright Edelman, president, Children\'s Defense Fund If I Get to Five is a one-of-a-kind book by a one-of-a-kind human being
