Author: Amanda Doering Tourville
Illustrator: Kristin Sorra
Publisher: Coughlan Publishing
Genre: Children’s nonfiction, special needs
Age level: 5-10
Themes: Disabilities, best friends, how to avoid troubling situations, learning about ADHD
Synopsis: My friend Robby has a disability called ADHD. But that doesn’t matter to us. We play basketball, tell jokes, go canoeing, and help each other with our homework. I’m glad Robby is my friend!
Synopsis: My friend Robby has a disability called ADHD. But that doesn’t matter to us. We play basketball, tell jokes, go canoeing, and help each other with our homework. I’m glad Robby is my friend!
About the author: Amanda Doering Tourville lives in Eagan, MN, with her husband, Rick, and bulldog, Hugo. Amanda likes to write about a wide variety of topics. She feels that writing for children is doubly rewarding. She gets to help kids learn and love to read, and she gets to learn, too! (She's awesome at trivia, by the way.) When Amanda isn't writing, she loves to read, travel, and paint.
About the illustrator: Kristin Sorra has been drawing and painting for as long as she can remember. She is also the illustrator of The Three Billygoats Gruff and Mean Calypso Joe by Cathrene Valente Youngquist and currently lives in New York with her husband, a fellow artist. Kristin has no cats, but she does have a dog named Desi who purrs in his sleep.
Pre-reading activities: Ask the students what they know about ADHD already and what they would like to find out about it from reading about Robby and Marcus. They will brainstorm a list of things they like to do with their friends. Ask them if they think a friend who has ADHD or some other type of special need would change any of these things.
Post-reading activities: Students will list things they learned about ADHD from the book. Each student will pick one thing from the list and write about what they would do if they experienced some of the things that Robby did.
Reflection: I thought this book was very helpful for students who have ADHD. It may be helpful for the students in class if there is a student with ADHD and how to approach certain things. I liked how it had simple illustrations and would give the students the realization that students with ADHD aren’t much different from any other student.
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