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"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together,…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2016Hyperion Press · 374 pages · 9781484741238
- Other · English · 2014Kingswell · 358 pages · 9781423180364
- Other · English · 2014577 pages · 9781410470171
Animated filmsLanguageFamilyInterpersonal communicationAutistic childrenCharactersPsychological aspectsBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General









