Que le pasa a Timmy? - Hardcover

Shriver, Maria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316167940 ISBN 13: 9780316167949

Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2001

Synopsis

Noticing that something is different with Timmy from other children in the park, a young girl asks her mother questions that lead to an introduction and soon a special friendship between the two children.

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Review:

When 8-year-old Kate meets a boy who seems somehow different, she feels funny inside. After talking with her mom, though, Kate begins to understand that Timmy is just like her in many ways. Timmy has special needs; he takes longer to learn than Kate, and can't walk or run as well. But he also "loves his family, he wants friends, he goes to school, and he dreams about what he wants to be when he grows up." Kate and Timmy meet, and the seeds of a friendship are planted.

For all those children who ask their parents why someone looks or acts "different," author and journalist Maria Shriver's What's Wrong with Timmy? provides a base for discussion. Kate's mother models appropriate behavior, speaking to her daughter calmly and directly, and providing examples from her own life to help Kate understand about Timmy. Illustrator Sandra Speidel's soft, intentionally hazy pastels are lovely; bold, enlarged phrases on the opposite pages of text act as captions. Shriver and Speidel collaborated previously on the tremendously popular What's Heaven?, also starring Kate and her mother. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author:

Maria Shriver, the award-winning journalist, is the mother of four children, a wife, and the author of the enormously popular and helpful What's Heaven? and Ten Things I Wish I'd Known. She and her family live in Santa Monica, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0316167940
• ISBN 13: 9780316167949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Speidel Sandra