"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive"--
- ISBN10 1423180364
- ISBN13 9781423180364
- Publish Date 15 May 2014
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 July 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Disney Publishing Worldwide
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English