A Kind of Spark

"People aren't like books. A familiar book is always the same, always comforting and full of the same words and pictures. A familiar person can be new and challenging, no matter how many times you try to read them." I want to read more OwnVoices books with disability representation so why not start t......more

A stunning, moving and powerful book with a main character a lot of people - children and adults - should look up to. Addie is a young, autistic girl living in a small village near Edinburgh. When she learns about the innocent women who lost their lives during the witch trials centuries before, she m......more

ENGLISH The autistic community sees... so much ableism, and so many people trying to tell our stories and speak for us. So to have a book like this, for children, means so much. I've already read this book twice, because I found it somewhat hard to read at first and wanted to give myself the opportu......more

Since the early nineties, autism was something that was rarely discussed and certainly never understood. Knowledge of and a window into what it means to be autistic in the world of children’s literature has been even scanter. The literature that I have encountered such as The London Eye Mystery and......more

It takes a lot for a book to make me cry. Even though I feel stories deeply, and my heart lives and dies with the characters, I don’t usually cry. But then most books don’t represent me. This book made me cry, not because it is sad, but because it is everything I needed this book to be. Had I this boo......more