The Man Who Loved Clowns
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The Man Who Loved Clowns is a book by June Rae Wood
about a girl named Delrita who wants to be "invisible" at her new school. She lives with her parents and uncle, who has Down syndrome
. The story is based on Wood's real life story of life with her uncle Richard, who himself had Down's Syndromehttp://mowrites4kids.drury.edu/authors/wood/. She also wrote a sequel, entitled Turtle On A Fence Post, set one year later.
The book ties in with A Corner of the Universe
by Ann M. Martin.
June Rae Wood
June Rae Wood is an American author. One of her books, The Man Who Loved Clowns, won the Mark Twain Award and William Allen White Award in 1995.- Early life :...
about a girl named Delrita who wants to be "invisible" at her new school. She lives with her parents and uncle, who has Down syndrome
Down syndrome
Down syndrome, or Down's syndrome, trisomy 21, is a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British physician who described the syndrome in 1866. The condition was clinically described earlier in the 19th...
. The story is based on Wood's real life story of life with her uncle Richard, who himself had Down's Syndromehttp://mowrites4kids.drury.edu/authors/wood/. She also wrote a sequel, entitled Turtle On A Fence Post, set one year later.
The book ties in with A Corner of the Universe
A Corner of the Universe
A Corner of the Universe is a young adult's novel by Ann M. Martin, published in 2002. It won a Newbery Honor in 2003.-Plot:The summer during the 1960s is a season that the novel's narrator and protagonist, 11-almost-12-year-old Hattie Owen, expects to be as comfortably uneventful as all the others...
by Ann M. Martin.
Awards
- 1995 Mark Twain AwardMark Twain AwardsThe Mark Twain Readers Award, also known simply as the Mark Twain Award, is an award given annually to a book for children in grades four through six by the Missouri Association of School Librarians . Students primarily in grades four through six in Missouri schools can vote for their favorite book...
in Missouri - 1995 William Allen White Award in Kansas