Jennifer Stratton’s daughter , Caitlin, wanted to share a photo with her kindergarten class of an athlete wearing his gold medal in wheelchair rugby at the 2008 Paralympic Games. The teacher wouldn’t allow it because it might scare the children. Stratton decided to write a children’s book about Nick Springer’s life, “Nick Springer on the move’. She wanted Christopher Kuster, paralyzed in a shallow-water diving accident in 1992, a mouth painter to do the illustrations

Kuster says, “I want the book to let everyone know people can do anything they put their mind to, no matter what their challenges are. And I think that needs to happen at an early age.”

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