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A review by kait_lost_in_books
Show Us Who You Are by Elle McNicoll
5.0
My daughter’s current favourite book. I really shouldn’t pick them up when I’m already struggling to sleep though because I end up staying awake to finish Elle’s amazing stories with neurodiverse central characters.
Much like ‘A Kind of Spark’ (Small’s all time favourite book), this book tackles some big themes (grief, death, disabilities, eugenics)for a kids book and does so wonderfully, and without fuss or heavy euphemism. The best thing is there is nothing patronising about it. Just open and honest conversation about important issues.
Cora and Adrien meet at Adrien’s birthday party when she is taken along by her older brother Gregor who works for Adrien’s Dad at Pomegranate Technologies.
Cora and Adrien’s friendship grows as they realise they are both different from the other kids they know and understand each other in a way other kids never have. (Cora is autistic, Adrien has ADHD - both neurodiverse). There’s some really affirming conversations with between the two of them about the differences and similarities of their brain wiring and some really necessary discussions of neurotypical perceptions of people who ‘aren’t normal’.
When tragedy strikes, Cora gets to see what actually goes on at Pomegranate’s holo labs where the dead can speak and oh what tales they tell!
Much like ‘A Kind of Spark’ (Small’s all time favourite book), this book tackles some big themes (grief, death, disabilities, eugenics)for a kids book and does so wonderfully, and without fuss or heavy euphemism. The best thing is there is nothing patronising about it. Just open and honest conversation about important issues.
Cora and Adrien meet at Adrien’s birthday party when she is taken along by her older brother Gregor who works for Adrien’s Dad at Pomegranate Technologies.
Cora and Adrien’s friendship grows as they realise they are both different from the other kids they know and understand each other in a way other kids never have. (Cora is autistic, Adrien has ADHD - both neurodiverse). There’s some really affirming conversations with between the two of them about the differences and similarities of their brain wiring and some really necessary discussions of neurotypical perceptions of people who ‘aren’t normal’.
When tragedy strikes, Cora gets to see what actually goes on at Pomegranate’s holo labs where the dead can speak and oh what tales they tell!