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How to Build a Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine
How to Build a Hug Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine Author:Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville 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... more »?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!« less