221 pages Trade Paperback (Realistic Fiction)
Christopher is Autistic. Christopher finds the neighbor’s dog, Wellington, impaled on a pitch fork in Mrs. Shears backyard. Christopher picks Wellington up and holds him because he likes dogs. Dogs are nice and easy to understand. Not like people. Not like Mrs. Shears who is standing on the back porch yelling, “What the fuck did you do to my dog?!”
Haddon has produced a wonderful book. It is all written from the perspective of being in Christopher’s head. We get to understand his every thought and see everything that he can see.
Christopher decides he is going to be a detective like Sherlock Holmes. He is going to solve the mystery of Wellington’s death. The book follows his adventures of following rules to the letter and figuring out who the killer is. While doing this he gets to know himself, his neighbors and his family in ways that he nor the reader expects.
I found the presentation to fun and exciting. It was extremely easy to read since it is all very straight forward and written out. I really couldn’t put it down and finished it in 2 days.
4 Intellectual/Emotional: The unique perspective of being in the kids head coupled with a feeling of closeness makes this easy to give a 4.
4 Style/ Readability: Again this book was easy to digest and easy to get into. I think most any reader would get involved. I would say the level of reading is probably around middle school, but it was engaging enough for an adult.
3 Long Term Impact: It has already been a large success and I think it holds nice place to keep its popularity for while. I think this is a great book for someone to read if you are dealing with Autistic folk. It gave me a perspective into seeing how they think.
11 out of 13 and well deserved. This book is well worth your time. Any reader should be able to pick it up and finish it in short time.
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