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Anthony Best
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616089610 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
- ISBN: 161608961X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. - Publisher: New York : Skyhorse Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A picture book about Asperger's" -- from front cover |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Sitka.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Squamish Public Library | E FAH (Text) | 33110003204615 | Easy Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| 100 Mile House Branch | E FAH (Text) | 33923005069046 | Easy | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2012 December #1
An earnestly lifeless infodump featuring a child with a spectrum disorder who occasionally misbehaves but, mirabile dictu, can play piano like a pro. Looking about 10 years old in some of Inouye's static suburban scenes and younger in others, Anthony is viewed by a sympathetic would-be friend. She models proper responses while explaining that he sometimes screams at loud noises, throws sand, seldom makes eye contact, flaps his hands when he's happy and just doesn't get knock-knock jokes. But one day, a grand piano arrives at Anthony's house, and the narrator is astonished to find him confidently playing "a song I never heard before. Wow! I can't do that," she marvels. Children will come away from this with a little more awareness of some common behaviors associated with diagnoses of Asperger's and similar disabilities, but such information is already widely available in less generic trappings, and Anthony's musical ability--which springs from nowhere here--isn't exactly typical. A worthy topic but no more than a discussion starter, as it's too bland to make much of an impression on its own. (afterword, with URLs) (Picture book. 6-8) Copyright Kirkus 2012 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.
