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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General Note: | GMD: large print. |