Book of the Day

Today’s BOOK OF THE DAY is from one of Australia’s best known and most popular writers – Frances Whiting.

From the day Annabelle Andrews sashays into her classroom, Tallulah ‘Lulu’ de Longland is bewitched: by Annabelle, by her family, and by their sprawling, crumbling house tumbling down to the river…

Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn’t have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They’re both plagued with faulty genes—he has bipolar disorder, and she has a ravaging family history of breast cancer…

Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and learning about life from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare?

This is the story of Owen Suskind, an autistic boy who couldn’t speak for years, and how his family learned to communicate with him using Disney dialogue and song.