Postcards from a Lake Monster

About this book

You are cordially invited to meet a lake monster and his mom.Trevor's not like most lake monsters. While he loves spending his days building mountain ranges out of the mud on the banks of Lake Eerie, he's bad at swimming and disinterested in fishing.Child psychologist Dr Lena Spyros has a lot of experience helping young people of all descriptions overcome struggles and, realizing Trevor's behaviors and interests put him on the autism spectrum, Dr Spyros helps this laker and his mother Bessie find the best ways to help Trevor thrive.With fourteen beautiful full-color drawings, readers of 7-11 years old get to wade into Trevor's life in the lake, his journey to diagnosis, then learn more about autism in the second half of the book as Trevor and Dr Spyros exchange friendly, informative postcards.Improbable Press' "Postcards" series is an imaginative fantasy set talking about issues important to kids.