Free Temple Grandin Coloring Book on Autism: My Life in Pictures
The coloring book Temple Grandin: My life in Pictures a coloring book for children about autism is available for free, in preparation for the showing of the HBO special about Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism. Temple Grandin is an animal scientist, autism advocate and a person with autism. She is also the author of several books including Thinking in Pictures and her recent book Animals make us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals.
All of the illustrations in the coloring book are created by artists with autism through Project Onward. According to Project Onward’s website they provide art supplies, studio space and professional guidance for emerging artists with developmental and mental disabilities. The coloring book was written by Mary Carpenter the Author of a children’s biography about Temple Grandin, Rescued by a Cow and a Squeeze.
The coloring book is 27 pages filled with detailed illustrations of Temple Grandin’s life from her early non- verbal years, college life, her work as a scientist and engineer designing factory farming equipment that is kinder to animals. It is a beautifully illustrated and informative coloring book about Grandin’s life and autism that children and adults should enjoy. My life in Pictures a coloring book for children about autism, is available for free at the Barnes and Noble Website.
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The link is dead. I clicked it as soon as the FB post telling about it went up. Apparently they pulled the offer.
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I think this coloring book would help autistic children better understand their “health condition” and to cope with it in a more practical manner.
Once again, Hollywood has failed to give a comprehensive view of autism spectrum. Thankfully, You Tube videos like, “autism spectrum seems out of control” and ‘autism epidemic out of control” shed new light into the pervasive misuse and abuse of the word autism and how it hurts families raising truly autistic children..that said, Temple Grandin is a marvelous woman, but was never really autistic, she’s severe Aspergers, OCD, etc…on psych meds…