of my favorite books reviewed here on the Easter Seals and autism blog is Cynthia Lord’s Rules, an award-winning fictional Īs the author of RULES (and a mom of a 17-year-old son with autism myself), I’m truly sorry to hear that my book is the source of this challenge for you.
Easter Seals and Autism » Blog Archive » Wanted: More childrens books about kids with disabilities Says:. Please read our community guidelines when posting comments. I recommend this book!Ĭomments may not reflect Easterseals' policies or positions. The Schneider Award is given by the American Library Association - it honors an author for the artistic expression of the disability experience.Ĭarly Gaither and the American Library Association can’t be wrong. The book has won a host of awards, including a Newbery Honor Medal and the Schneider Family Book Award. “I just, like, forget about ’em.”Ĭarly told me that reading Rules helped her realize she was not alone. “I ignore them and pretend they didn’t do anything wrong,” she shrugs. They just think he’s an eight-year-old baby.”Ĭarly’s been through this before. “It’s sort of embarrassing, but then it’s really sad, because they don’t know what’s going on with him. “He started whining, and crying, and yelling really loud.” A group of teenagers hanging out nearby pointed and laughed at Scottie. “We were playing something he probably wouldn’t want to play, and we told him that,” she says. She describes one time when Scottie approached her group of friends and wanted to play with them. Other kids make fun of her little brother sometimes. When I interviewed Carly for the story, she admitted that growing up with a sister or brother who has autism is not always easy. 
“My language arts teacher told me we’re reading it because of Scottie,” she beams. When Carly was interviewed for this article, her class was reading “Rules,” an award-winning fictional children’s book that looks at autism from an older sister’s perspective. Carly’s little brother Scottie Gaither has autism, and he’s the Easter Seals 2008 National Child Representative. I heard about this book when I interviewed Carly Gaither for a story in an Easter Seals publication called We Are Easter Seals. This comment made me think of the novel Rules by Cynthia Lord. She says, “get dressed and take mom out to the movies or to dinner, I’ll watch Johnny!” (her brother who has autism - he is 14) … She is our angel, she understands him, and takes great care of him! She is the one that will make me and her dad go out.
Im so proud of my 16-year-old daughter Jessmill. In a comment to my Mother’s Day blog, a reader complimented her teenage daughter.
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