Alvin Robert Cunningham is the author of "My Brother has a Brain Injury (page 297) and is illustrated by Brian Kammerer.
The story describes how an older brother, who was riding his bicycle dangerously fast, was in a serious accident and taken to a hospital. After coming out of a coma, the doctors determined that he received a Traumatic Brain Injury. As a result, he has to learn to walk and talk again. He also is placed in a special education class when he returns to school. The younger brother, their parents, and educators help him learn to cope with his new disability. When now riding their bicycles, the brothers wear bicycle helmets.

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Mr. Cunningham is a retired elementary educator and is a traumatic brain injury survivor of a 1989, one-car, automobile accident. Like the brother in his story, the author was in a coma for three weeks and in a major trauma hospital for two months. Mr. Cunningham was left with permanent physical and neurological impairment. He has learned to cope with this disability and has since authored 8 children's books that are currently being marketed to schools and sold at online bookstores. He is a member of the National Brain Injury Association in Washington, D.C., which provided in information page (306) following his story.