Full name: Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism

Author: Ron Suskind Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781484741238 1484741234

What if you were trapped in a Disney movie? In all of them, actually – from Dumbo to Peter Pan to The Lion King -- and had to learn about life and love mostly from what could be gleaned from animated characters, dancing across a screen of color? Asking this question opens a doorway to the most extraordinary of stories. It is the saga of Owen Suskind, who happens to be the son of one of America's most noted writers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind. He's also autistic. The twisting, 20-year journey of this boy and his family will change that way you see autism, old Disney movies, and the power of imagination to heal a shattered, upside-down world. Similar books: A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind Carly's Voice by Arthur Fleischmann Mother Warriors by Jenny McCarthy Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida A Slant of Sun by Beth Kephart George & Sam by Charlotte Moore Not Even Wrong by Paul Collins Boy Alone by Karl Taro Greenfeld Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin Send in the Idiots by Kamran Nazeer Louder Than Words by Jenny McCarthy Like Colour to the Blind by Donna Williams Somebody Somewhere by Donna Williams A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner There's a Boy in Here by Judy Barron There's More to Life Than This by Theresa Caputo The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney