Taking Down Syndrome to School (Special Kids in School) [Paperback]

Jenna Glatzer (Author), Karen Schader (Editor), Tom Dineen (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Special Kids in School

These beautifully illustrated and fun-to-read storybooks simplify and normalize complicated childhood conditions, like down syndrome. When read aloud, other children can identify why a peer may be treated differently and begin to empathize with them. In addition, children whose conditions set them apart as being different begin to feel accepted and safe. Each book includes a Kids' Quiz to reinforce new information and Ten Tips for Teachers to provide additional facts and ideas for teacher use. In Taking Down Syndrome to School, Nick's story explains what Down Syndrome is and how it affects children born with it.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 30 pages
• Publisher: JayJo Books; 1st edition (February 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891383191
• ISBN-13: 978-1891383199
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 7.8 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #670,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #7 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Personal Health > Children's Health > Down Syndrome

More About the Author

I am the author of 19 books, and a contributing editor at Writer's Digest.

My recent books include Unthinkable with Scott Rigsby, Bullyproof Your Child for Life with Joel Haber, Ph.D., Celine Dion: For Keeps, The Street-Smart Writer, Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer, Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders, and Outwitting Writer's Block and Other Problems of the Pen, all available on Amazon.com! Just search for my name (Jenna Glatzer). Buying my books will instantly make you more attractive and make the lines shorter for you at the DMV.

I live in New York with my awesome daughter. I have oddly wedge-shaped feet, and an excessive number of mugs. Maybe one day I'll get bigger cabinets.

See my author site at www.jennaglatzer.com for more about me.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the right touch, September 24, 2002

By 

lorig3 (Long Island, N.Y. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Taking Down Syndrome to School (Special Kids in School) (Paperback)

I found this book to be a very sensitive and positive treatment of a topic that needs to be discussed in schools today. As more children with Down Syndrome and other disabilities are entering our classrooms, discussions of pertinent issues are important. Exposure of non-disabled children to books such as this one will facilitate their communication with and acceptance of the disabled youngsters with whom they will be expected to associate. Ms. Glatzer does an admirable job of presenting the information in an informative, gentle, non-threatening way, at just the right level for a young elementary school aged child to grasp. By writing the book as a first-person narrative, told in the words of Nick, the young boy with Down Syndrome, she makes it easy and natural for the young reader to empathize with him. The similarities between Nick and the reader are stressed, rather than the differences. This book (and the others in the same series) should be in every elementary school classroom today.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, January 24, 2011

By 

Laura Walser "806Mom" (Texas) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Taking Down Syndrome to School (Special Kids in School) (Paperback)

I have a daughter who has Down syndrome and I was looking for books for her classmates to read and this one is very good! It is very positive! It also addresses how name-calling hurts their feelings just like everyone else. I liked how this book was written - thumbs up!

4.0 out of 5 stars Taking Down Syndrome to School, September 24, 2011

By 

Brenda Tyrrell "Special mom" (La Center Wa) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Taking Down Syndrome to School (Special Kids in School) (Paperback)

I think this book did a great job talking about Downs. It was describes in a positive accurate way and the pictures were fun. The only thing I didn't like is how the boy with Downs was drawn, kinda fat. Other than that this is a great book for kids!