Finally, a tool that prepares children for medical procedures in a fun way! This colorful storybook was especially created to help reduce childhood fears in their inevitable encounter with medical devices. "Hero Kids in the Making" is a children's picture book that redirects the imagination of a pediatric patient from a fearful perspective and towards a hero making tale that inspires bravery. This fun rhyming story turns medical procedures into cute, magical creatures. Instruments such as stethoscopes, syringes and imaging equipment are transformed into these magical animals, now in disguise. It's a fantasy hero making version of what the child will really experience during a doctor's or hospital visit. When a child familiar with this fantasy tale experiences medical procedures, they instantly become a hero character of the story themselves.