What Difference Does it Make, Danny?

This book treads the delicate territory around 'bibliotheraphy' and produces a brave, unsentimental, absorbing story. The central character has epileptic fits. Woven into the plot (without too much preaching) is the child's courage, other children's apprehensions and some adult far and uncertainty. There's a genuine storyteller's concern for the action, too, which lifts it above the 'courage wins through' school --- the courage does though, and it's moving. I mean no disrespect to the author when I say that it's a good example of a not great book being enhanced by the pictures. Blake's cover and illustrations, sometimes generous page spreads, are to be 'read' and enjoyed as part of the telling. Worth reading and talking about with any age group from seven-up.