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| A Real Boy: How Autism Shattered Our Lives - and Made a Family from the Pieces | 
 enlarge | Author: Christopher Stevens With Nicola Stevens
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 7245
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 1843172666
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.92858820092
EAN: 9781843172666
ASIN: 1843172666
Publication Date: February 28, 2008
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Real Life Autism June 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A very moving and interesting account of living with autism. I liked the way the vulnerability and the fragility of David's life was shown with such love and poignancy. Often (unintentionally) autistic children are protrayed as frightening destructive creatures because they don't understand the rules of life. This book showed us, as far as is possible, how the world looks from the point of view of the child.
Brilliant! March 30, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I read this book in one day (okay I was on a train to London and back!) It is one of the funniest, most moving and emotional books I have ever read. It is not inviting you to feel sorry for either the boy in the book or the parents but a portrayal of how life is for them as a family, including the older son. It was funny enough to make me laugh out loud, illiciting some strange looks from the other passengers in the compartment, and also made me swallow once or twice at particularly emotive descriptions. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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