SuitabookAll better now
Emily Wing Smith
- Reading
- Consider reading together or checking in after sections about the accident and health difficulties. Let your child set the pace and pause to discuss what they find striking or confusing.
- Themes
- Living with disability and illness: Emily describes difficulties with anger, dizziness and coordination, followed by the discovery of a benign brain tumour. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Writing as a way to cope: The book addresses writing as a way to cope; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. Writing is presented as part of her coping, but its wider role or outcome in the memoir is not established.
- Worth knowing
- These health and injury experiences may be worth noting if they are difficult topics for your child.