Life, animated : a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism
Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive.
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- ISBN: 9781410470171
- Physical Description 577 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition Large print edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2014.
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Life, Animated : A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
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Table of Contents
Life, Animated : A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Chapter 1 | Growing Backward | p. 13 |
Chapter 2 | Bumping into Walls | p. 58 |
Chapter 3 | In Character | p. 93 |
Chapter 4 | Musical Chairs | p. 134 |
Chapter 5 | The Protekter of Sidekicks | p. 159 |
Chapter 6 | A Journey Song | p. 201 |
Chapter 7 | Magic Formulas | p. 262 |
Chapter 8 | Luck from Unluck | p. 310 |
Chapter 9 | Blessings, Undisguised | p. 364 |
Chapter 10 | The Movie Gods | p. 406 |
Chapter 11 | To Do It on His Own | p. 459 |
Chapter 12 | The Animated Life | p. 505 |
Sidekicks | p. 553 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 569 |