Synopses & Reviews
This moving account based on a true story chronicles the friendship between a snail and a small child in a wheelchair and explores issues concerning physical disabilities. A small snail in a shell winds up hanging on a chord around Yagos neck. Realizing that Yago cannot speak, the snail learns to analyze the different sounds of the childs heartbeat and finds a renewed interest in life. This insightful story will teach children to accept differences and deal with diversity.
Review
"This moving and tender story brings to life the experiences of children with physical differences and disabilities. Carretero's watercolor illustrations are soft, warm, and imaginative, expressing the story's emotions and moods. A fine addition to most collections." Library Journal (June 23, 2011)
Synopsis
Can you dance in a wheelchair? Can you sing without being able to speak? A touching and tender story about the friendship between a small child in wheelchair, which speaks to the heart.
Can a shell become a child's best friend? This story, based on a real and true friendship, narrates how a little boy in a wheelchair met his best friend of all times, and how they never left each other's side.
A small snail in a shell loved being carried around in a small necklace. She loved how her owner discovered the world and she along with him. One day, she falls down in the sand a boy happens to find her and introduces her to his brother, Yago. How strange Yago wasn't able to talk, and he couldn't walk either, because he was in a wheelchair. Yago's family seem very fond of him, but how is it possible? Eager to communicate with Yago, the little snail finds a special language to feel whatever the boy is feeling: listening to his heartbeat.
This insightful story will teach children to accept differences and deal with diversity.
Read the first pages of Yago's Heartbeat here: