This book is a biography picture book following the life of Temple Grandin as she gets diagnosed with autism and faces the challenges of a world that does not understand her. Overcoming difficulty, she rises and becomes who she is today, pursuing a career in animal science. This book is great for kids grades 3-5. I would use this in my classroom when learning about scientists or celebrating differences in each other that make us unique. ( )

Independent Reading Level: Ages 5-8
Awards/Honors: None

I've read everything about and by Dr. Grandin that I've found. I don't have high hopes for this, but if it reaches an audience that otherwise would not learn about her, yay.
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Turns out, it's pretty good. I'm not crazy about the rhyme, but, again, maybe that will help new people find out about this amazing hero. Includes generous back matter. ( )

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures can be used in an elementary level classroom as a powerful read aloud. This book goes through the story of a girl with a disability who thinks differently than other students and her struggles with it. This book can teach students about disabilities, especially autism and things they may struggle with. ( )

I think this book can be for the primary level and intermediate level. the story of this book is about a little girl who has autism and some people do not understand why she is the way she is. She struggles at first with it but slowly learns how to move forward with it and her special interests. She eventually invents something for cows and becomes popular for her work.

Biographical picture book on the life of the engineer Temple Grandin. Temple faced bullying as a child but discovers her unique ability to design solutions when she moves out west to live with an aunt. This book does a great job at covering real aspects of her life as a person with autism(being non verbal, struggling to socialize). However, I’d be careful if reading with the class to also show other representation of autistic individuals without savant syndrome. Would use for a historical persons or inclusivity read with lower/mid elementary. ( )

- Age: Intermediate

- This book is about Temple Grandin who is an autistic scientist. It go along her journey of growing up and how people bullied her for being different. Then she found a love for cows and an inspirational teacher guided her into science and engineering. She has help build different tools for the cattle industry.

- This is a cool book about a women with autism and her life story. I would have this in my classroom so we can learn from her, hear her struggles, and those with autism would have a book they might connect to.

This book explored the life, challenges, and triumphs of Temple Grandin. It shows how people with Autism might act or perceive the world, and it gives positive, strength-based perspectives of neurodivergence to its readers.
This would be a great book to incorporate into the classroom that can introduce students to a wider variety of abilities and thought processes. It would be appropriate mostly for K-3rd grade, and would work best if it's not the ONLY neurodivergent book/disability that is discussed in the classroom setting since I would like all students to be represented. ( )

This book would be appropriate for later elementary students because of the kid-friendly approach to autism and depth of the story. This book is a true story about a young girl with autism as she takes on the world in her own unique way and embraces her differences. This book would be great to use in the classroom to teach about inclusion of students with disabilities and diversity. It also needs to be used carefully in case there is a student with autism so they don't feel singled out.

This book is great for Primary and Intermediate readers
It is the story of Temple Grandin who has autism and her journey through education
This would be a good book when talking about inclusion and to provide encouragement for students with disabilities. It also has historical information in the back of the book.

Dr. Temple Gradin, an autistic woman, uses her different way of thinking to improve livestock practices around the globe.

Independent Reading Level: 2nd-4th grade

Awards: NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books Selection. Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award Recipient.

Independent Reading Levels Grades 1-3
NSTA Best STEM Books for K-12 Selection
NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books Selection
Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award Recipient
A Mighty Girl Book of the Year

Independent reading level: ages 6+

Independent Reading Level: Grades K-5
Honors/Awards: A Mighty Girl Book of the Year.
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Selection
Amelia Bloomer List Selection.
Mathical Honor Book.

This story tells of Dr. Temple Grandin and her journey with autism. It lets students see the importance of kindness to others and that our differences do not mean we are not capable of doing what others can do. It also teaches them about positive self talk and perseverance. ( )

This is a fantastic picture book that explores Temple Grandin's life. The illustrations are clear and engaging. Although this book covers fairly complicated topics it does in a way that is accessible to students. The story has a sing song sound to it making it a wonderful read aloud.

A wonderfully illustrated biography of Dr. Temple Grandin, including a letter from the scientist herself to readers. This beautiful book unhesitatingly captures her experience as a person with autism, a woman in the field of animal science, an innovator in industry and science, and an advocate for people with disabilities, especially people with autism. Winner of the Dolly Gray award for representing the experience of people with developmental disabilities authentically, this book is a great biography for children to support inclusion, or honor students with disabilities, or as a sample book to introduce problem solving and innovation in science.

This book tells the biography of Dr. Temple Grandin in beautiful rhyming poetry. Dr. Temple Grandin has Autism but she didn't let that stop her from finding her place and her voice. On her aunts farm, she found where she fit in and was finally able to shine by figuring out how to make farms better. An inspiring story that will empower future scientists everywhere. ( )

This book is about Temple Grandin, who is a woman who has autism. Throughout her journey with her autism, she learned that she has a photographic memory and that she sees things as pictures and can find solutions to potential problems through these pictures. It is because of her work that she goes on to help renovate meat processing plants and allow for better conditions for the cows in those plants. I would recommend this book to any age group, as younger children can appreciate the illustrations more and the older children can appreciate the story more. ( )

This book would be good for primary and intermediate students. It's great a representation of a person with a disability, it could also be read during a science unit, because Temple Grandin is an amazing scientist. The book is the story of Temple Grandin an amazing scientist with autism. ( )

this book talks about how temple grande and how she see the world. It was a very informative book but a easy read. I would read in general to educate kids on someone who may learn like this. I would use it in all grades up to third.

This book is the story of Temple Grandin and her experience as a person with autism. I think this book would be a great read aloud for kids to show that it is okay to be different. I think this book is empowering and brings awareness to people with disabilities and the struggles that they face. I would say this book is _targeted towards both primary and intermediate grade students ( )

This book is based off the early life of Temple Gradin. This book retells the struggles to successes that Temple and her family go through in order to advocate and help Temple succeed with autism. I would use this book for a research project to talk about famous or important figures in our world. I would use this book in 2nd to 8th grade, I think you can use Temple's story in many different ways.

This book would be a good read aloud book for primary aged students.
This book is about true story of Temple Grandin, a woman who has autism. Temple Grandin sees the world in pictures, and throughout the book she is described as being uniquely wired and her perseverance to be seen as an individual and not solely because she has autism.
I would use this book in my classroom as a way to bring awareness to disabilities and the autism community. It's a book that not only talks about autism, but also about people who are viewed as different and how everybody has their own differences and uniqueness.