Customer Reviews

Taking Down Syndrome to School (Special Kids in School)

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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.

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!

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!