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The Giant-Slayer
Poliomyelitis
Storytelling, fiction
Medical fiction
Imagination, fiction
People with disabilities, fiction
Storytelling
Fathers and daughters, fiction
Imagination
People with disabilities
Fathers and daughters
Medical care
Children's fiction
Juvenile fiction
Fiction
A girl's imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine's gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn and Chip, two…
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