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Someone Special Just Like You

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Publisher Comments:

Here are children singing, dancing, going down slides, and blowing bubbles. A girl with a sly smile carefully crosses a balance beam. Out on a science trip, two boys step close enough to touch the glass wall between themselves and a huge porpoise. One young child smells a lovely flower, another splashes in a pool, and a third bangs on a tambourine. Here are children discovering the world around them, at home and with their friends.

All of these children are doing the things that children like to do the children in these photographs have handicaps. Although they may not walk, talk, hear, or see the way that others do, that doesn't make them different in their need to experience life completely. Each child in Someone Special, Just Like You is a full participant in the joys and pains of childhood.

The wonderful pictures and words presented here are an important first step in helping children, parents, and teachers to understand that the differences that seem to separate these children from others are not important. What is important is the common delight in life: a desire to love, learn, and play, and to be accepted for themselves, as other children are.

The photographs in Someone Special, Just Like You were taken at four different preschools in the San Francisco Bay Area. These preschool are for children with visual impairments, hearing impairments, physical handicaps, and mental handicaps.

Synopsis:

Brown and Ortiz show that the differences that seem to separate children with handicaps from others are not important. What is important is the common delight in life--a desire to love, learn and play, and to be accepted for themselves as other children are.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780805004816
Author:
Ortiz, Fran
Author:
Ortiz, Fran
Author:
Morris, Effie Lee
Author:
Lee Morris, Effie
Author:
Brown, Tricia
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Social Situations - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
Subject:
Juvenile literature
Subject:
Handicapped children
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Sociology
Subject:
Children with disabilities
Subject:
Situations / Prejudice & Racism
Subject:
Situations / Special Needs
Subject:
Social Issues/General (see also headings under Family)
Subject:
Health & Daily Living - Physical Impairments
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Picture Book
Series Volume:
7733
Publication Date:
19950915
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Children/juvenile
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Black-and-white illustrations throughout
Pages:
64
Dimensions:
8.31x9.38x.45 in. .95 lbs.
Age Level:
07-11
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Brown and Ortiz show that the differences that seem to separate children with handicaps from others are not important. What is important is the common delight in life--a desire to love, learn and play, and to be accepted for themselves as other children are.
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