The kids I teach have regular personalities like anyone else and aren't perfect (disabilities aside) but I marvel at their strength and resiliency everyday. It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.

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And he takes a job driving a school bus for special needs kids for one year. The author of Precious Cargo: My Year Of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 on adult cruelty, normalizing special needs and the value of friendships with expiry dates. Craig, I have a quick question for you related to your description on p 225 of how you helped calm kids when they had meltdowns. Canada Reads trailer for Craig Davidson's Precious Cargo.

Davidson rounds out the book by adding in struggles he faced early in his writing career, as well as snippets from an unpublished novel, The Seekers. Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077. while i really liked the parts davidson wrote about himself, especially his writing and his frustrations with his image of himself as a writer, it definitely occasionally strayed into the pitfalls of a book written by an able-bodied person about disabled people: references to how inspiring the kids were because of their disabilities. by Knopf Canada. These were presented as real life events written down when they happened and shared later in this book. Title: Precious Cargo Author: Craig Davidson My Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ I read this book because it was on the Canada Reads 2018 longlist, and it was one of the first to come through from the library.I guess it wasn’t all that popular until it got nominated for Canada Reads.

The Canada Reads defenders and authors took the stage in Toronto to discuss the five books that will be championed on CBC's battle of the books from March 26-29, 2018.

The writer says people clear their way for Jake, pity him, and he always feeling like everyone is watching him - even when. Craig Davidson writes so beautifully and I feel grateful to have shared in even a tiny sliver of the joy that the students on Bus 3077 gave him.

This is the extraordinary story of that year and those relationships. He always did. Its also receiving a lot of press. I feel like a more compassionate human being for having read this beautiful little book, and while the Canada Reads panelists ultimately chose FORGIVENESS, I think this deserves to be widely read as well. Especially for a non-fiction. The author is very open and honest about his own views and the personal growth he experienced from his daily contact with thee kids and how much they taught him about themselves and more importantly his own self. Find a routine and stick to it, Why Greg Johnson thinks Precious Cargo should win Canada Reads, 4 things to read, watch, and listen after you've read Precious Cargo. I became very wrapped up in the lives of the students. Totally heartwarming. My questions: Did this happen every time you tried to calm a kid by touching a shoulder? It’s not often that “nonfiction” and “can’t put it down” are used to describe the same book (at least not for me), but this book was just so readable. Precious Cargo by Craig Davidson was defended by Greg Johnson on Canada Reads 2018. Indeed, the best parts of the story were rooted in the gritty details of his daily interactions with the special needs students he spent so much time with. In 2008 Craig Davidson was looking for work to put food on his table and fuel in his vehicle, when he spied an advertisement for a School Bus Driver - No Experience Needed. Upon reading your book Precious Cargo I was very moved by your connection with the kids on bus 3077 and your struggle to see them as kids first and then the disabilities.

I read this slowly, about a chapter a day, as this year's Canada Reads debates were being held, and slowly started to root for this one. Precious Cargo is a chronicle of the year Davidson operated a school bus for a group of handicapped children in suburban Calgary. Call me cynical, but stories that are hopeful and quaint are just not my thing (I'm not sure what this says about me).

Thoroughly enjoyed reading PC--best wishes for success on Canada Reads! I liked it! Thanks for writing about it.

After early success (his first book of stories and novel were bought by an agent), he was floundering, broke, suffering from writer’s block, and living alone in a basement apartment in Calgary. Touching story that is both funny and sad, like life itself. Hello Gerarda, Thank you so much for reaching out. There aren’t many times I can count where I a) binge read a book and b) forget where I am because I’m so invested. It was a 2015 reading.

I am loving this book.

Some people love books. This immediately piqued my interest!

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At the time, Davidson was at a low point in his life and career.

Its also receiving a lot of press. It was a pleasure reading about the kids on Bus 3077 - all of their quirks and stories and mannerisms - I laughed out loud and genuinely had moments where I paused to re-read certain quotes that I knew would - and should - stick with me (sometimes I even read them to Graham!) Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem.

Every month our team sorts... To see what your friends thought of this book, "The Boat People" by Sharon Bala, recently made the Canada Reads Long List. Craig Davidson is a Canadian author of short stories and novels, who has published work under both his own name and the pen names, “You and I are cobbled out of carbon cells that were once other things entirely. 4 things to read, watch, and listen after you've read Precious Cargo; Watch the book trailer.

I have never heard anyone else describe this kind of experience, so it really caught my attention in Precious Cargo. His voice dropped to a conspiratorial whisper.

Precious Cargo is Canadian novelist Craig Davidson’s memoir about the year he spent driving a school bus for special needs students. By far the weakest of the Canada Reads book.

Or an ancient lotus petal in our tonsils.”, “For some of the kids on my bus, the deviation is so small: an imperfection in the DNA strand so tiny that an electron microscope cranked to 100,000X magnification shows but a shadow.

We could have a carbon cell in one of our elbows that was once part of a trilobite's tail.

Upon reading your book Precious Cargo I was very moved by your connection with the kids on bus 3077 and your struggle to see them as kids first and then the disabilities. Of course I am biased because my son is 15-year old with autism and is non-verbal, like Gavin!

These children provided him an unforgettable experience and a much needed lift as he was struggling through some dark times. I teared up when to Craig they became "kids, same as any other kids," and kids who changed his life at that. I love the way you chose to live that bus driver experience so deeply. 3 years ago. I really couldn’t fault this book for anything.

I laughed out loud many times and came away with a full heart after reading about the relationships of this team of people - adult and young adults.

This book is about a man forced to re-evaluate the way he views himself and the world around him. Broke after some early success as a writer, Craig Davidson was desperate for any job that could provide some income.

Over the course of the year, the experience changes him and he learns a lot about himself and about the kids he drives on the bus. They make me laugh, cry, take teacher time outs so I don't scream, but I wouldn't have it any other way. This one literally has wheels. I was surprised when I flipped the book over to see that author Craig Davidson writes horror fiction under a pseudonym that. Or a cell from Atilla the Hun's moustache in our eye. The reason I love Canada Reads is that it forces me to read books that aren't in my wheelhouse, and I found myself engrossed in this memoir in spite of my initial resistance.

We’d love your help. If not for my beloved Canada Reads competition, I would never have picked this up. Well, kudos to him!

Craig Davidson on Mainstreet Cape Breton with Wendy Bergfeldt.

(From Knopf Canada). I really loved this book.

He had just applied for, and not gotten, a Lunch Supervisor position, when he found a flyer for bus drivers wanted. Ugh! That was a little torturous to be Honest! From Precious Cargo by Craig Davidson ©2016.

You describe touching their shoulders and then feeling an electrical current pulsing up your arm.

Weightless. It’s charming, heartwarming, and very funny. Originally written as a piece for Avenue magazine, Craig expanded his experience into a full length memoir. I love that the kids you wrote about are real, not perfect, not romanticized kids. The individual stories were beautifully told.

Anyone have some inspiring Canadian books like this to suggest? I personally wanted to read it because I thought it would be a real, accessible way to better understand a part of our society that I don't know much about. It's lovely to hear from you, and I'll be sure to pass this on to my Mom, who will be delighted. His writing career doesn't receive the accolades he's expected. The yearning for a normal life and realizing it’s been right in front of you all along was a lesson I’ll relearn over and over. Two down, three to go.