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SOMEBODY CALLED ME A RETARD TODAY...AND MY HEART FELT SAD by Ellen O'Shaughnessy

SOMEBODY CALLED ME A RETARD TODAY...AND MY HEART FELT SAD

by Ellen O'Shaughnessy & illustrated by David Garner

Pub Date: Oct. 1st, 1992
ISBN: 0-8027-8196-9
Publisher: Walker

The long title of this first book from O'Shaughnessy—an author with ``a background in education for the developmentally disabled''—says it all: although Dad reminds the young narrator of his many real successes (friends, jobs well done), and though he's learned to keep his hurt a secret, it's still there. A brief but effective vignette, nicely visualized in Garner's simple, lyrically sketched illustrations. (Picture book. 4-8)