One in five of us have learning and attention issues, including specific learning disabilities like dyslexia and ADHD. Increasingly, children's and YA books are not only including but embracing neurodiverse characters, and the conversation is expanding to include – and normalize – many facets of the broad variety of how we engage with the world. Melanie Conklin, a Bank Street Best Children's Book winner, and author of A Perfect Mistake, joins us to talk about how neurodiverse kids are represented in children's literature, and how that literature can help kids deal with some very difficult – and very real – emotions.