Annette Fournier

Annette Fournier is the author of the "Kids Like Me" series, books that focus on acceptance and understanding conditions affecting children with special needs or disabilities. Kids will love the fun rhymes, easy-to-understand stories and bright illustrations. Parents, grandparents and teachers will love having a kid-friendly resource to teach kids' siblings, cousins, classmates and friends about special needs and disabilities. The current books focus on chromosome disorders, feeding tubes such as G tubes /NG tubes, and the brain condition agenesis of the corpus callosum. Fournier is also the author of "Playing in the Mud: An Amateur Farmer's Guide How Not to Farm", a funny, yet heart-warming memoir of a family with a special needs child leaving their cushy lives in the suburbs to start a family farm. The family confronts a goat with an identity crisis, escape-artist sheep, rattlesnakes and roosters trying to live on the patio, two alpacas fighting for the love of a llama, and an emu who runs amok. These funny adventures push the family to their limits and ultimately, to find a new sense of peace. Fournier is a featured author on the special needs blog, SpecialBaby.org.