Cowboy and Wills: a Love Story. Doesn't it just sound like the sugariest, gooiest book ever? And I haven't even told you that Wills is a
puppy! (OK, maybe the cover gave it away). Well compared to
Marley and Me this is positively gritty. Because Wills is a little boy with autistic spectrum disorder, and his case is pretty profound. Soap bubbles hurt his skin. How on earth could he ever cope with a world full of stones? Cue the puppy. People struggling with forms of autism often respond well to animals, and it turns out Cowboy was the key to Wills. Sounds intolerably cute but the book is contains sharp observations of the hard facts about mainstreaming. Plus a happy ending! Yay, puppy!
Cowboy and Wills: a Love Story by Monica Holloway.
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