Kathryn Erskine spent many years as a lawyer before realizing that she’d rather write things that people might actually enjoy reading. Kathryn Erskine has written a must-read gem, one of the most moving novels of the year. In her search for it, Caitlin discovers that not everything is black and white-the world is full of colors-messy and beautiful. When she reads the definition of closure, she realizes that is what she needs. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger’s, she doesn’t know how. But now Devon’s dead and Dad is no help at all. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s older brother, Devon, has always explained. In Caitlin’s world, everything is black or white. Keep watching my blog for more book reviews! By the end of the book, we can correlate with the struggle parents have of raising such kids let’s not add more to their concern by educating our children to be empathetic and kind.This should be one of the must-read books of kids/ adults of 10+ age. The character sketch of Caitlin, the protagonist is supposed to be accurate for the author herself has a kid having Asperger’s. The charts and pictures are the same colors.

You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same.

And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don’t change. People say you can’t judge a book by its cover but that’s not true because it says right on the cover what’s inside. What’s great about books is that the stuff inside doesn’t change. Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. For example, sample this (and this is my the favorite part): The dialogues and quotes are worth memorizing, and even you as a reader could relate to it. The book does not only talk of disability, but of overcoming loss and of overcoming prejudices (in the book, for relative of an anti-social person which can be extended to prejudices of caste, creed, color and so on).

The book helps in realizing the behavior patterns of Asperger’s and that such disabilities should not be made fun of. It is a story told through the eyes of a 11-year old girl and hence some portions of the story are repetitive, but which makes it highly impressive. Draper and the next in line, the review for which is being written below is Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine.Īs per Wikipedia, Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger’s, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. The earlier book reviewed was Out of My Mind by Sharon M. If you are my blog follower, you must be aware that I am following through the list of similar books to the famous Wonder (Julia Roberts stars in the movie with the same name).

The mockingbird book by kathryn erskine