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Overview
This moving account based on a true story chronicles the friendship between a snail and a small child in a wheelchair and explores issues concerning physical disabilities. A small snail in a shell winds up hanging on a chord around Yago’s neck. Realizing that Yago cannot speak, the snail learns to analyze the different sounds of the child’s heartbeat and finds a renewed interest in life. This insightful story will teach children to accept differences and deal with diversity.
Synopsis
Can you dance in a wheelchair? Can you sing without being able to speak? A touching and tender story about the friendship between a small child in a wheelchair, which speaks to the heart.
Can a shell become a child's best friend? This story, based on a real and true friendship, narrates how a little boy in a wheelchair met his best friend of all times, and how they never left each other's side.
A small snail in a shell loved being carried around in a small necklace. She loved how her owner discovered the world and she along with him. One day, she falls down in the sand a boy happens to find her and introduces her to his brother, Yago. How strange! Yago wasn't able to talk, and he couldn't walk either, because he was in a wheelchair. Yago's family seems very fond of him, but how is it possible? Eager to communicate with Yago, the little snail finds a special language to feel whatever the boy is feeling: listening to his heartbeat.
This insightful story will teach children to accept differences and deal with diversity.