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The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter
by Vivian Gussin Paley, Robert Coles
by Vivian Gussin Paley, Robert Coles
Jessica's review
bookshelves: 2008, first-person, nonfiction, summer-2006-summer-2008, teaching-stories
Jan 03, 10
bookshelves: 2008, first-person, nonfiction, summer-2006-summer-2008, teaching-stories
Paley's account of The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter has stuck with me because it upsets the apple cart of special needs labeling in the very best way. A poetic glimpse at how symbolic imagery and language are used to achieve expression, connection and self-understanding by the unlikeliest child in her classroom. Through Paley's eyes, a boy who would be a helicopter is a metaphor for the confused and veiled attempts to cope through self-narration done by the rest of us.
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