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George & Sam: Two Boys, One Family, and Autism
by Charlotte Moore
Product Group: Book
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2006-11-28)
ISBN: 0312358938
EAN: 9780312358938
Dewy Decimal #: 618.9285882
Hardcover: 320 pages
Edition: 1
Release Date: 2006-11-28
SKU: 07110110
Condition: New As issued no jac
Comments: Trade Paperback. Advance Reading Copy in new condition. No marks or creases and appears unread. Beautiful book.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
For the parents, families, and friends of the 1 in 250 autistic children born annually in the United States, George and Sam provides a unique look into the life of the autistic child.
Charlotte Moore has three children, George, Sam, and Jake. George and Sam are autistic. George and Sam takes the reader from the births of each of the two boys, along the painstaking path to diagnosis, interventions, schooling and more. She writes powerfully about her family and her sons, and allows readers to see the boys behind the label of autism. Their often puzzling behavior, unusual food aversions, and the different ways that autism effects George and Sam lend deeper insight into this confounding disorder.
George and Sam emerge from her narrative as distinct, wonderful, and at times frustrating children who both are autistic through and through. Moore does not feel the need to search for cause or cure, but simply to find the best ways to help her sons. She conveys to readers what autism is and isn’t, what therapies have worked and what hasn’t been effective, and paints a moving, memorable portrait life with her boys. Charlotte Moore is a writer and journalist who lives in Sussex, England with her three sons. She is the author of four novels and three children's book. For two years she wrote a highly acclaimed column in the Guardian called “Mind the Gap” about life with George and Sam. She is a contributor to many publications.
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Customer Reviews
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very good, easy to read, objective book
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-10-23
The book is so informative and gives the opportunity to look inside this family's life with two children with autism. If you are a parent or a caregiver, you will relate to a lot of the behaviors, actions and reactions of the boys. The mom is very good telling all and not feeling like is a tragedy to be the mom of these two kids.
Very informative about the things that have helped them improve their quality of life. A must read for families of children with autism, like mine.
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Excellent information
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-08-05
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I read this book on a recommendation and it was of particular interest to me, since a close friend has an autistic child and another close friend works with autistic children. This book deals with a heavy subject in a very accessible manner and gives out a lot of information without feeling preachy or reading like a textbook. I recommend it for everyone.
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Great for parents of a child with autism!
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-06-15
As a psychologist who works with children with autism, I have read many of the books written by parents so I can have a better understanding of their experience. Many of the books focus on some of the alternative treatments and how one or another "cured" their child. This is not the case with "George and Sam". Charlotte Moore does describe treatments that she has tried, and discusses the pros and cons of the outcome in a realistic way. She doesn't expect to find a miracle cure, just treatments that can improve her boys' quality of life. She wholly accepts who they are. She doesn't lead the reader to believe that if they try a particular treatment their child will be cured. I believe this is a great book for parents, especially those who have a child that is newly diagnosed.
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A great autism memoir
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-09-23
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I read this book because Nick Hornby recommended it in his book, "The Polyphonic Spree." (By the way, Hornby's novel, "How to be Good," though not about autism, is an entertaining read). Hornby has a son affected by autism, so he has insight into the subject.
I don't agree with everything Moore writes, but I found this memoir to be very real and moving. She discusses the CF GF diet, but isn't a zealot about it, which I appreciated. She uses ABA, whereas we use Floortime in our family. She's anti-inclusion, whereas my son attends a school with an inclusion program.
This book shows what it's like to live with autism. The author has a sense of humor, which makes it readable. I could identify with her gradual awakening to the fact that something was wrong. I appreciated her worries about what will happen to her boys after she's gone.
Moore says her sons are "autistic through and through," which is to say, there are not "normal" boys inside, struggling to get out. I think this is an important view to have represented, because there are a lot of miraculous recovery stories out there, and the truth is that sometimes, recovery doesn't happen. Recovery makes for a more dramatic story, and probably sells more books. But there's a place for truthful accounts like this, too. I resonated with it.
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Good account of what it's like to raise two severely autistic boys
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-08-14
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have a 3 yr old autistic son who moved from severe to mild with a lot of intervention. I have read a lot of books, and I was particularly interested in this one because I had heard so many positive things about it. I am glad that I did because overall, I really liked the book. I found her accounts of her sons to be filled with love, honesty, and sometimes even humor. She is an amazing woman to raise 3 boys alone (she's a single Mom!), and two of them with autism. I give her a lot of credit. I give it 4 stars though instead of 5 because while I liked her accounts, I think she made some pretty odd assertions. Some of it has been mentioned already in the reviews, and some not. I just hope that people read it with an open mind - that her assertions on autism is just that of a Mom with two autistic boys, and they are not always...accurate. Regardless, I highly recommend this book.
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