Reflection on the Texts as a Set

Reflection on the Texts as a Set

All of the books I critically reviewed, Ian’s Walk, My Brother Sammy and Andy and His Yellow Frisbee, all positively showed behaviors and relationships that children with autism can have. Each book had some similarities as the others. Each book showed and explained the fact that children with autism like to play alone and like to do things differently. Each of the three books was about a male character with autism and all involved siblings as well. The books all showed or explained how the sibling felt in the beginning regarding their sibling with autism and showed how they grew to accept and understand their sibling better as the story went on. These three books, as a set, positively tell stories involving a child with autism and show how life can be for them and their siblings.

I recommend all of these books and especially recommend, My Brother Sammy, because it covers many aspects of autism in a very positive way and Sammy’s sibling also narrates it, which I think is a very important view to hear the story from. The reader gets to hear from the sibling what it is like having a brother who is autistic. Two of the three books, Andy and His Yellow Frisbee and Ian’s Walk both contain pages dedicated to explaining what autism is. The author of Andy and His Yellow Frisbee also chose to include an about the author section, which the other two authors chose not to have. In Mary Thompson’s about the author section, the reader learns that she is a mother to four children, one who has a disability. I thought it was interesting knowing this fact because it shows that she is even more an insider on the topic. But all three authors wrote wonderful stories that showed how a child with autism may behave and certain relationships that they may have.