Martino has Wheels

Annalisa Rabitti, Martino has Wheels
Martino and Emma are two schoolmates. She is a storyteller and uses speech as an extraordinary gift not to be wasted. He, on the other hand, is a ‘quiet child’ - that is exactly how Emma defines him - a child who moves with the wheels, who does not express himself by speaking and who sometimes shows reactions that are difficult to understand. There is little contact between the two until Emma finds in Martin the ideal listener to her stories: a patient, attentive, respectful listener. The narrative thus nurtures an intimacy made up of small, delicate gestures. Emma, and with her the reader, discovers that not speaking does not necessarily mean not listening or not communicating, and she begins to make her stories of dragons, cats, princesses and wolves the driving force behind a very special friendship, which is also capable of dissolving the qualms of her companions and proving to be extraordinarily contagious.
A book to explain disability to children