About this item
Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville, and Giselle Potter come together to tell the inspiring story of autism advocate Dr. Temple Grandin and her brilliant invention: the hug machine.As a young girl, Temple Grandin loved folding paper kites, making obstacle courses, and building lean-tos. But she really didn't like hugs. Temple wanted to be held - but to her, hugs felt like being stuffed inside the scratchiest sock in the world; like a tidal wave of dentist drills, sandpaper, and awful cologne, coming at her all at once. Would she ever get to enjoy the comfort of a hug? Then one day, Temple had an idea. If she couldn't receive a hug, she would make one ... she would build a hug machine!
About the Author
Amy Guglielmo is an award-winning author, artist, and arts advocate. She is the co-author of the Christopher award-winning POCKET FULL OF COLORS: The Magical World of Mary Blair Disney Artist Extraordinaire (Atheneum 2017) and How to Build a Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine (Atheneum 2018) with co-author Jacqueline Tourville, and GOODNIGHT, STARRY NIGHT (Cartwheel 2019) , LOVE (Cartwheel 2020) , and the TOUCH THE ART series (Sterling 2006, 2010) with Julie Appel! She has also written CEZANNE'S PARROT (Putnam 2020) a picture book biography about artist Paul Cézanne, known as the father of modern art, who taught his pet parrot to say, "Cézanne is a great painter" and JUST BEING DALI with illustrations by Brett Helquist (Putnam 2021) .Amy currently teaches high school art in the Adirondacks and is the co-founder of Outside Art: The Plattsburgh Public Art Project. She was a finalist for the 2014 Katherine Patterson Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing and is represented by Stephen Barbara at InkWell Management. She lives with her husband on the shores of Lake Champlain where she enjoys water sports just as long as she doesn't have to get her hair wet. Follow her on twitter @amyguglielmo and Instagram @amy_guglielmo and learn more information at www.amyguglielmo.com
