My youngest is on the autism spectrum. She was looking at a very fuzzy photo of a bookrack of here pre-school 9 or 10 years ago. In the photo is a very fuzzy book. She asked me to help find “Single Boy”.
It’s really fuzzy but it’s a large pre-school style book. The cover is light blue. There is a white head of a dog and a girl in the background. At the forefront is a drawing of a boy. The title is white and can make out a big sweeping S.
I didn’t find “Single Boy” on Amazon (there is one but it’s not a kids book) or a specialty kids book site.
I am simply amazed. My daughter was looking through old photos and then asked me for help to find Single Boy. I know she has a great memory, but this has left me speechless.
Appreciate if any of the Teeming Masses can help locate this book
Though “Single Boy” would appear unlikely to be the title, I expect your daughter really is correctly remembering something (but not the title), or that she’s remembered the title close-but-not-quite.
Here is a link: the photos are low res and hope they help.
Again, appreciate the help. My daughter’s mind works in some mysterious ways. She’s got the memory of an elephant for certain things, and this is the first time something like this has cropped up.
Single Boy kinda sorta matches the one book. My daughter’s memory was perked by seeing that photo and she may be close but not quite there with “Simple Boy.” “Single Boy” got a hit but is unlikely to be the kids book.
I think the pre-school is still there but it’s been 7 or 8 years…so that’s an unlikely lead.
Depending on the person, [young autistic person] plus [a trip of indeterminate length to go into stores for the specific purpose of looking all over the place for something you’re not sure is even there] might be… interesting… - which might be why he asked here. I have one autistic friend who would drag me to get there faster, but if we took the other, it might ruin that day for her plus half the next one - and these are adults.
I think the boy’s face is on another book sitting in front.
I think the word in the title may be “smile” or possible something like “syndo” which obviously is meaningless, but it’s not “single” or “simple”. I did wonder if it was “sticker book” she was saying.
Also the girl face looks like a doll-like anime version of a character, which sent me down the Frozen or even My Little Pony licensed character route. She really looks familiar to me.
It is profoundly fuzzy (where is my “zoom and enhance”!?) but my eyes are wanting to see “Smile Baby.” Googling for books with that title gives me Smile, Baby, Smile by Moria Butterfield. I didn’t see a cover with an exact match, but this one has a curved “smile” shape under the second use of the word Smile, and having primed my mind to that, I can see the same feature in the book in your photos. I’m around 99 percent confident that it is an edition of that book.
I think you’re right. I can see the little head at the bottom of the book in the classroom photo and it looks just like the head of the little person on the book cover.
- which might be why he asked here. I have one autistic friend who would drag me to get there faster, but if we took the other, it might ruin that day for her plus half the next one - and these are adults. 
