Name: Let's talk! A story of Autism and Friendship
Item: Let's talk! A story of Autism and Friendship
Rating: 5
Author: Nancy Retallick

Reviewed on Jan 9, 2021

Must read 🏆

This is an easy twelve-page children’s book to read.

I have worked with kids’ who were abused but never autistic kids, so this book was educational for me. I wouldn’t know autism from a child who might be extremely shy. Lisa Jacovsky wrote an easy to read twelve-page children’s book Let's talk! A story of Autism and Friendship.

Seven-year-old Harper meets Emma at the swimming pool. Harper notices Emma doesn’t speak. Instead of feeling discouraged Harper looks for a way to communicate with Emma. She talks to her mommy who encourages her to learn how to communicate with Emma and supports Harper’s idea to play with Emma. Harper is happy she has a new friend and teaches her other friends how to communicate and play with Emma.

I love the characters Harper and her mommy. Harper had no fear or any hesitation because Emma couldn’t speak. This is an excellent book to use for teaching children how to include someone who is different no matter the difference.

I recommend this book to parents who have school age kids and to anyone who works with kids. This book will be easy for children to understand. The artwork is awesome.

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I am an author, an advocate, and former foster parent. I adopted my granddaughter, and we wrote a book together called Carly Shares Her Story. We used the pen names Eve Collins and Morgan Carew. The book is about her experience as a foster child. I worked with inmates for 20+ yrs and now I'm retired