Updated: May 2026 · Zuckerschmuck Team
Diabetes Books to Make Your Daily Life Easier
Diabetes is part of your life, but it doesn't have to define it. Good diabetes books provide you with knowledge, security, and practical daily advice. In our category Books about Diabetes, you'll find a carefully selected mix of guides, children's books, cookbooks, and creative titles.
Whether you live with diabetes yourself, accompany a child with diabetes, or want to better understand someone in your circle, here you'll find books for people with diabetes and books for children with diabetes that truly help in everyday life.
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- Selected by people with diabetes for people with diabetes
Guides for Adults with Diabetes
If you want to delve deeper into your diabetes knowledge, you'll find well-founded guides, from basics to therapy forms and practical tips for everyday life.
Understanding Diabetes and Maintaining Quality of Life: Type 1 and 2, Rosemary Walker
This diabetes book helps you better understand your diabetes. You'll learn the differences between diabetes types, recognize hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, and get tips for quality of life, exercise, and nutrition.
Discover GuideCompact Lexicon Diabetes Mellitus A to Z, Tobias Sessler
This compact lexicon is helpful if you are looking for books for diabetics that explain technical terms quickly and understandably. Suitable for looking up questions about insulin, therapies, sensors, and hypoglycemia.
To the Compact LexiconDiabetes in Old Age, Jürgen Wernecke and Andrej Zeyfang
This book is aimed at older people with diabetes and their relatives. You'll learn what to look out for in old age and receive practical recommendations for therapy, care, and an independent life.
View BookYou can find more diabetes books in our complete book category.
Books for Children with Diabetes and Their Families
Children with diabetes need stories where they can see themselves, and adults who learn with them. In this selection, you'll find lovingly designed books for children with diabetes that encourage and playfully explain important topics.
I am Luca, an Encouragement Book for Diabetes, Sarah Bethke
Luca takes children by the hand and shows them: you are not alone with diabetes. The book helps to sort out feelings, process the diagnosis, and understand diabetes in a child-friendly way, ideal for reading together.
To the Children's BookMiss Candy, Mr. Sweet and the Sugar Gang, Katja Schaaf
With a lot of imagination, this children's diabetes book explains what happens in the body with Type 1 diabetes. Suitable for reading together, laughing, and at the same time learning more about one's own body.
Discover NowDiabetes, Marie, You Can Do It, Christine Jüngling
Marie shows that children with diabetes can manage their daily lives with the right support and some knowledge. Suitable as a gift for newly diagnosed children or as a companion in school life.
Book for Marie FansLiving with Type 1 Diabetes in Kindergarten, Cecilia Lorenzo Fernández
This book explains how daily kindergarten life with Type 1 diabetes can be safely managed, from recognizing hypoglycemia to insulin management. Helps sensitize a child's environment.
For Kindergarten and ParentsMy Dia-Monster Doodle Coloring Book, Type 1 Diabetes
Here, feelings, experiences, and monster doodles can find their place. This coloring book is fun and helps children playfully process their diabetes.
To the Doodle Coloring BookMilli and the Sugar Dragons, how children learn to deal with diabetes
The sugar dragons encourage children to better understand their diabetes and confidently deal with the disease, suitable for reading aloud and self-reading.
Read with MilliNovels and Stories about Diabetes
Sometimes stories, humor, and new perspectives help more than dry facts. In this category, you'll find books about diabetes that make you smile and at the same time paint a realistic picture of life with diabetes.
The Number 1 Type, a New Adult novel about bittersweet values, Nadine Trinkies
This novel shows how much diabetes also accompanies feelings, relationships, and growing up, honestly and emotionally, with a lot of humor.
To the NovelCosmo, Diabetes Superhero, Kinga M. Hailwax
Cosmo shows children with diabetes that they are strong, brave, and not alone. A book to strengthen self-confidence and pride in one's own story.
Get to Know CosmoBreak Free, Becoming Independent with Type 1 Diabetes, how little diabetes heroes grow up, by Maren Sturny
This book helps to gradually become more independent in dealing with Type 1 diabetes, suitable for growing people with diabetes and their families.
View Break FreeCookbooks: Delicious Eating with Diabetes
Eating deliciously and at the same time keeping an eye on your values – that's what our cooking and baking books are for. If you're looking for diabetes books with recipes, you'll find them here.
Diabetes Cookbook, Enjoyably Controlling Blood Sugar, Dr. Matthias Riedl
Fresh recipes that accompany you in everyday life and at the same time keep an eye on your blood sugar, ideal as inspiration for your diabetes-friendly kitchen.
To the CookbookIce Cream Abitur Low Carb, Ice Cream for Diabetics, Frank Goebel
If you love ice cream and at the same time want to pay attention to your values, this book is a good addition to your daily diabetes routine, creative low-carb recipes with a pleasure factor.
Discover Ice Cream RecipesThe Diabetes Cookbook, the Great Family Kitchen, Anya Schmidt-Rüngeler
Here you'll find dishes that work for people with diabetes and for the rest of the family, suitable if you don't want to cook twice.
View Family RecipesShipping, Gift Promotions and Further Browsing
You can order all the diabetes books mentioned here directly from our shop. Current shipping conditions and any ongoing gift promotions can be found in the Shipping section of the shop. Many promotions are seasonal, feel free to check the newsletter or the homepage.
Browse through all books about diabetes and find the title that accompanies you, your child, or your loved ones on their diabetes journey.
Note: Books and guides are a source of knowledge, but they do not replace medical or nutritional counseling. For specific therapy or nutritional questions, please speak with your diabetologist or a qualified nutritionist.
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