Dr. Maitland DeLand writes educational and entertaining children’s books to help ease children’s worries about medical and health conditions. Dr. DeLand’s The Great Katie Kate series focuses on children’s health concerns such as explaining epilepsy to children and answering children’s questions about cancer.

Dr. DeLand is also the author of Baby Santa, a children’s Christmas book on how a young boy must overcome obstacles to help save Christmas, and other books for children including Busy Bees and Fishing for Flowers.