num_pages: 32
description: In a compelling and beautifully illustrated story award-winning author Douglas Wood tells of the teacher who led him to love reading in spite of his ADHD.Douglas is the youngest smallest and newest student in his second-grade class and he doesnt like reading. He doesnt like sitting still. And he doesnt like Miss Little especially when she makes him stay after class day after day forcing him to sound out lines and blobs and squiggles when hed rather be throwing a football. Luckily Douglas likes the pictures in the book Miss Little has chosen for him pictures that remind him of the lake his family visits every summer. Award-winning author Douglas Wood  the boy in the story  alludes to scenes from The Little Island the first book that enticed him to read in a tale that will resonate with many children with ADHD. It is also a heartwarming ode to a special teacher whose gentle persistence changed one little boys life forever.
language: English
title: Miss Little's Gift
publisher: Candlewick Press