He really liked Lois Lowry's book The Giver, so he might also like Gossomer. I'll have to look at that one.
I think my son needs to write a book similar to Vocabulary Cartoons just for fun. He is very good at coming up with humorous mnemonics to remember information that might ordinarily be boring. His excuse for not doing this is that he can't draw and it wouldn't be the same without illustrations. I told him he could do stick figures and that his dyspraxic drawings might make it even more humorous. I am already writing down a lot of what he says when we read together.
I always thought some of his sensitivity was a gift and it is definitely part of what makes him different from the average kid. He notices things that most people don't notice because of his sensitivity. He even notices things about other people that I don't notice. I could never lie to him because he senses when I am not being entirely truthful and he is very sensitive to my anxiety and other people's anxiety which I think is one reason he loves to make people laugh.
