Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Disabilities & Special Needs

The Littlest Inventor is a brilliantly colored picture book that features a smart, sensitive boy with sensory issues. For those with sensory processing disorder (SPD), life can often be overwhelming. However, when equipped with knowledge to help themselves, life becomes not just manageable, but enjoyable.

"There needs to be more emphasis on what a child can do instead of what he cannot do." -
Dr. Temple Grandin

Then a terrible storm drives the ships into the hands of...

Iris Heller, a 15-year-old teenager with Sensory Processing Disorder, runs away to compete in a national bake-off contest. To get there, she "borrows" her mom's car, travels through several states, and does the most terrifying thing of all -- interacts with actual people Iris has never been like other girls, but she's not about to let that get in the way.

Iris has this profound fascination for the musician Dave Matthews, and she feels a compelling need to compete in the bake-off for Dave. To compensate for nervousness, she has the habit of humming, beat boxing, and making musical...

As the mother of a child with autism, I have had the opportunity to truly appreciate the significance of communication. A simple greeting of hello, a request for a drink, or an "I want" for a favorite toy may never happen for many. In our struggle to make those connections, there have been many meltdowns, countless tears, and moments of desperation where I found myself begging him to say a single word, let alone a simple "I love you."

It was when my children's own relationships began to evolve that I started to see an even greater love that cannot be expressed in just three...

A blind child questions all he encountersa dog, wolf, elephant, mountain, bird, stream, and treeabout the color of the wind. Each responds differently, with a shape, color, smell, texture, or idea. Each page displays a visual and tactile palette of cutouts, textures, colors. It is a sensory experience that makes the invisible experiential, ending with the wind as the pages fly.

A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Anne Herbauts expresses an original world in each of her books. Awake to the richness of the world, endlessly curious, and rigorous in her work, Anne...