Souza is a wilful little girl who learns MORE about making good choices from her new Autistic friend than from a league of daily adult caregivers.

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Introducing Multi-Platform: COOKIES IN MY SOUP by Marisa Torre

Souza is a wilful little girl who learns more about making good choices from her new Autistic friend than from a league of daily adult caregivers.

1.Children's literature with non-gender-specific Special Needs friends

for parents bedtime story ages 2-7 and students age 7-9 text-book

2.Book and in-class manipulatives

3.Digital program interactive engagement

4.TV Series: Souza in daily life gets her best help from Special Needs kids

Lyrical repetition, household and life sight-words, socio-emotional lessons

Educates! Celebrates! Empowers!

Approx 1500 words

Synopsis: Souza comes in from a winter day to enjoy some nice hot soup, but first she has to check around the kitchen to find her favourite spoon.

After a nap, Souza wants to have some nice cold milk and looks around the kitchen again to find her favourite cookies.

To get herself ready to go to the library, Souza checks around the kitchen again to find a fruit for her snack, then gets herself dressed to go outside.

At the library, Souza enjoys a new book and then while having her snack she remembers how much she enjoyed her soup with noodles and her milk with cookies.

Souza decides it would be good to eat them all mixed together and tells the Librarian who simply dismisses it as something that’s not done, just like all the other people she tells on the way home; crossing guard, teacher, etc

At her baby-sitter’s house, Souza tells a big new kid playing with baby toys.

The new kid is scared at first, then thinks a minute, then tells her ‘why’ it’s not a good idea to put cookies in her soup.

Souza understands and agrees.

She is happy to have a new friend who helps her make good choices.

The new kid is happy for a friend who doesn’t think Autistic means stupid.

Marisa Torre

12 years YRD School Board, Special Ed and Remedial Tutor

Volunteer-Art Gallery Ontario(AGO), TIFF, and Canadian Fest Film Fest

2 yrs TV Assoc Producer - Rogers Cable TV

Published Author 2006

Written: 12 Children’s Books

7 TV Pilots

4 Feature Films

5 Poetry Books

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COOKIES IN MY SOUP