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Loading... My Brother Sammyby Becky Edwards, David Armitage (Illustrator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book talks about how the narrators brother, Sammy, is different. It's repetitious on each page saying what Sammy does different and the mother letting the narrator know it's because he's special. Then the narrator wishing his brother could do what him and his friends are doing. He gets increasing frustrated with his brother and talks about how it isn't easy having a special brother. When Sammy knocks down his block tower, he gets so upset that he rants on about how he doesn't want a special brother and how he wants someone to do normal things with. He ends up seeing how being different isn't bad and it can be fun when they both build and knock down towers. I like how in this book, the narrator does the things Sammy likes doing. He didn't think they were fun or made sense but when he actually tried it with his brother, he saw how it's fun in a different way. "Don't knock it 'til you try it" is a phrase I'd use for this book. This story is about a boy with a younger brother with autism. The older brother wishes his younger brother wasn't so different. In the end the moral of the story is even though the boys little brother is special to him, to his brother with autism he is special. So the differences brought them together and built there bond stronger. Age 4+ source Pierce library. no reviews | add a review
A boy describes some of the many feelings he has about his brother Sammy, who is autistic. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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