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Temple Grandin how the girl who loved cows embraced autism and changed the world

An authorized portrait about Grandin's life with autism and her groundbreaking work as a scientist and designer of cruelty-free livestock facilities describes how she overcame key disabilities through education and the support of her mother.

Main Author: Montgomery, Sy.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2012.
Subjects:
Grandin, Temple > Juvenile nonfiction
Animal scientists > United States > Biography > Juvenile.
Animal specialists > United States > Biography > Juvenile .
Women animal specialists > United States > Biography > Juvenile.
Autism > United States > Juvenile nonfiction
Autistic people > United States > Biography > Juvenile.
Animal welfare > United States > Juvenile nonfiction
Livestock > Handling > United States > Juvenile nonfiction
Livestock > Housing > United States > Juvenile nonfiction
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Summary: An authorized portrait about Grandin's life with autism and her groundbreaking work as a scientist and designer of cruelty-free livestock facilities describes how she overcame key disabilities through education and the support of her mother.
Physical Description: 147 p. : col. ill., plans ; 26 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-138) and index.
ISBN: 9780547443157 (hbk.)
0547443153 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Sy Montgomery was born on February 7, 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany. She is a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, a triple major with dual degrees in Magazine Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in French Language and Literature and in Psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Keene State College in 2004, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce University and also from Southern New Hampshire University in 2011.

Montgomery is a naturalist. She is an author, and scriptwriter. Her most popular book, The Good Good Pig, is a memoir of her life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood. The book became listed on the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. How to be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals was published in September 2018. Her other notable titles include Journey of the Pink Dolphins, Spell of the Tiger, and Search for the Golden Moon Bear.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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