ISBN: 0722157142  
Godina izdanja: 1980
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Mary MacCracken - Lovey: A Very Special Child
Sphere, 1980
158 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

`A VERY SPECIAL CHILD

A VERY SPECIAL TEACHER

A VERY SPECIAL TRIUMPH

Hannah was a `hopeless` child. Everyone agreed on that - public school authorities, psychiatrists, even the mother who loved her but could not reach her. Everyone, except one remarkable teacher who understood what it was like to be eight years old and hurt and angry and confused. A teacher who saw Hannah as she could be rather than what she seemed to be.

One child. One teacher. Just enough to add up to a very human miracle...`

-from the back cover-

`WHEN IT COMES TO DEALING WITH DISTURBED CHILDREN, NO ONE CAN MATCH MRS. MacCRACKEN FOR HER KNOWLEDGE, COMPASSION AND DELICATE TOUCH`
New York Times Book Review
When Hannah Rosnic joined Mary MacCracken`s small class of emotionally disturbed children, she retired to a cupboard and refused to come out or eat for a fortnight. Eight years old, howling almost non-stop, she was the worst case that this experienced teacher had ever had to cope with.
But Mary MacCracken was determined not to give up, and over the weeks and months she used patience, skill, tenderness and an extraordinary commonsense to bring this small girl out of her self-created foxhole and back into the real world. As this moving true story unfolds we can share the teacher`s joy at every small step her pupil took on the road to recovery. And we can share too the little miracle that occurred when Hannah chose to adopt her own very special name-Lovey.
`A fine portrait of what it is like to be a loving teacher trying to mould her wild charges into social acceptability` Daily Express


Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Psychology, Mental Health, Education, 0722157142