- Published: 20 July 2021
- ISBN: 9780241508794
- Imprint: Puffin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $24.99
A Different Sort of Normal
- Published: 20 July 2021
- ISBN: 9780241508794
- Imprint: Puffin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $24.99
This book is what I needed as a kid! Empathetic, joyful and beautifully authentic. I loved it!
Elle McNicoll, author of A Kind of Spark
Funny, poignant and wise, with a rich seam of understanding and empathy . . . one of the best children's non-fiction books I've read in a long time
The Bookseller
A funny, fascinating illustrated memoir that conveys - via joyous tangential leaps, vivid doodles and informative notes - how it felt to grow up autistic and undiagnosed . . . a rewarding and highly entertaining read
Guardian
Insightful, accessible and easy to navigate, this is an essential book for autistic and allistic (non-autistic) readers of all ages
Booktrust
A hugely engaging, funny and informative account of being neurodivergent
Observer
Illuminating
The I Paper
An amazing, life-changing hug of a book I wish I had when I was growing up. It's funny, eye-opening and supremely reassuring and an important, myth-busting look into autism and how that experience can vary so much. For anyone and EVERYONE who has ever felt different. Time to reclaim it and celebrate it
Rashmi Sirdeshpande
This book is a great explainer, full of empathy for different situations, which explodes many misconceptions about autistic people along the way! I wish I had had this available many years ago when teaching an autistic child on a one-to-one basis
Love Reading 4 Schools
What a difference Abigail Balfe's new book is going to make for so many people! A Different Sort of Normal is a wonderful blend of humour, information & reassuring comfort
Emma Perry
I REALLY love it. It's the book I wish I'd had when I was a kid (I'd have known I was autistic immediately, right down to the cats). Buy it for your kids, your parents, your grandparents. Mostly buy it for yourself
Holly Smale
Highly illustrated, beautiful and an essential book for young autistic people
Lizzie Huxley-Jones