The Side-Yard Superhero is a heartwarming and poignant memoir chronicling the author’s small-town childhood adventures as a paperboy and his special friendship with a boy with cerebral palsy.
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Cinnamon Freckles is an entertaining children’s book by Sarah Leal. It’s one of the first books that tells the story of a child with a disability without focusing on the disability.
Nugget – Man of the Century
Adelaide’s Nugget Rees is a man who’s risen from the most unlikely circumstances to become the trusted confidante and companion of the biggest names in Australian cricket. In February 2007, Nugget Rees featured in an ABC TV Australian Story, called Man of the Century
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Children’s Books
Susan Laughs – Jeanne Willis
Susan laughs, she sings. she rides, she swings. She gets angry, she gets sad, she is good, she is bad…
Told in rhyme, this story follows Susan through a series of familiar activities. She swims with her father, works hard in school, plays with her friends – and even rides a horse. Lively, thoughtfully drawn illustrations reveal a portrait of a busy, happy little girl with whom younger readers will identify.
Blue Sky July
Set between the summers of 1998 and 2005 in Cardiff, UK, Blue Sky July is the story of a mother, Nia, whose son, Joe, is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. On the afternoon that Joe was born, complications set in and Nia Wyn and her husband are told that their son has severe cerebral palsy -he would not walk, see, talk or hear.
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