Book review: Julie L. Coe’s “The Friendship Puzzle: Helping Kids Learn About Accepting and including Kids with Autism”
by Katy
I just read a really nice book: The Friendship Puzzle, Helping Kids Learn About Accepting and Including Kids with Autism. The book was written by Julie L. Coe, inspired by Jennifer Maloni, and illustrated by Sondra L. Brassel. These collaborators are all moms, some have children with autism and some have typically developing children. Their goal was to write a book to help all children understand that each of us is unique and that each of us can learn to care about others.
The voice of the book is a typically developing elementary school girl — the story is about her journey to understand the new kid at school who has autism.
The book presents information in a kind and factually accurate manner and offers activities that kids can do with kids with autism. I’d recommend this book be included in all elementary school libraries.