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This hardback book is designed to help children aged eight to 12 learnabout famous people who may have had autistic spectrum disorders. Toldthrough the eyes of an eight-year-old boy with Asperger syndrome, thebook recounts the stories of people such as physicist Isaac Newton,artist Andy Warhol, biologist Dian Fossey, author Lewis Carroll and thefounder of modern computing Alan Turing. Each story is accompanied bycolour illustrations.

Waiting for the Future: Poems by Children on Poverty and Bad Housing

This collection of children's poems aims to raise money for housingcharity Shelter and campaign group End Child Poverty. At the same timeit tries to give readers an insight into how children in poverty or badhousing feel about their situation. In addition to the children'scontributions, the poet laureate Andrew Motion has penned a poem of hisown on the subject.