Positively ADD: Real Success Stories to Inspire Your Dreams
Grade 4-6–Profiles of successful entrepreneurs, educators, artists, athletes, and musicians, all of whom reached their success in spite of–or, as they sometimes claim, because of–ADD. The entries are sandwiched between advice from Edward Hallowell, a physician with ADD who has experience treating children and adults with the syndrome, and questions and answers about it. The stories are informative and inspiring, obviously written to help children understand the realities of living with the disorder. Great care has been taken to provide insight from both men and women, and African Americans and whites, but the writing is uninspired, and often stilted and dull. In spite of this, there is much to recommend this book: the variety of the people, the solutions that individuals have found for working and living with ADD, and the frank discussions of medications. This book, with its many discussion topics, may be best used as a read-aloud in a family where children and/or adults have ADD.–Wendy Smith-DArezzo, Loyola College, Baltimore, MDCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.