Elizabeth K. Gerlach

Ben's Adventures A Day at the Beach by Elizabeth Gerlach
Colorful children's book about Ben and his family and how they spend their time at the beach one day. He dreams he is an able bodied boy.
Words are very tiny for me to even read. He dreams of all the things they will do while there.

This is a wonderful book telling a story about children with special needs. It tells the story of Rachel, a girl with autism who makes friends with other children with special needs of their own. How Rachael meets them why she is at a riding lesson with her favorite horse Cheyenne. The friends enjoy riding and being with the horses because they are completely excepted just the way they are.

Such a wonderful book! Written by the mother of an autistic boy, this book is a wonderful way to get an insider's look at what living with a child with autism is really like... the emotions, the pain and confusion and desperation, the hope, all of it is reflected so well in this book, through short glimpses of Nicky's life as he grows up.