Special Brothers and Sisters

January 1, 2006
Gr 2-4 -A helpful guidebook with 40 short sections beginning with a comment ( -Sometimes she pulls my hair - or -People stare -), followed by the editors' commentary on understanding the situation and dealing with it. This is a quick, easy-to-read, compassionate approach, and it emphasizes the love between siblings regardless of differences in abilities and perceptions. Unfortunately, for American readers, the approach is British in language ( -she gets quite stroppy because she cannot hear us -) and in the resources/organizations listed at the end, all in the UK, New Zealand, or Australia. Readers in the U.S. may do better with Kate Strohm's "Being the Other One" (Shambhala, 2005) or Donald Meyer's "Views from Our Shoes" (Woodbine, 1997)." -Linda Beck, Indian Valley Public Library, Telford, PA"

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