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The Way I am is Different: A Children’s Book about a boy with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
In this children's book, a boy with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is about to embark on his third grade year. The boy describes his anxiety, fears, and discusses his struggles from an honest view point of what it is like to live with FASD in Elementary school. He shows us that the support from family, friends, and teachers certainly makes a positive difference. This book helps children understand their "different" is perfectly okay, and they are not alone.
24 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 16, 2018
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About the author
Helen Simpson
61Ìýbooks45ÌýfollowersHelen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1959 in Bristol, in the West of England, and went to a girls' school. She worked at Vogue for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. Her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories, won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while her book Hey Yeah Right Get A Life, a series of interlinked stories, won the Hawthornden Prize.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ database with this name. (In particular, the mystery author is a different author.)
In 1993, she was selected as one of Granta's top 20 novelists under the age of 40.
In 2009, she donated the short story The Tipping Point to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the 'Air' collection.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ database with this name. (In particular, the mystery author is a different author.)
In 1993, she was selected as one of Granta's top 20 novelists under the age of 40.
In 2009, she donated the short story The Tipping Point to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the 'Air' collection.
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July 15, 2018
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This was a reasonably good book but think it could have been a little more specific regarding what he is feeling which causes the biggest challenge for those on FASD spectrum.
This was a reasonably good book but think it could have been a little more specific regarding what he is feeling which causes the biggest challenge for those on FASD spectrum.
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