Life, animated
Subtitle: a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism
By: Ron Suskind,  winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Kingswell
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781423180364
Subjects: Animated films; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; Language; Family; Interpersonal communication; Autistic children; Characters; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities; Psychological aspects; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General; Family relationships; Biography; Parents of autistic children
Description: "Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive"--
Table of contents: title: Growing backward; title: Bumping into walls; title: In character; title: Musical chairs; title: The protekter of sidekicks; title: A journey song; title: Magic formulas; title: Luck from unluck; title: Blessings, undisguised; title: The movie gods; title: To do it on his own; title: The animated life; title: Sidekicks.