Children’s Books for Understanding Disabilities:
(Tomorrow guest Lisa Woolsey will be helping with #27 acts of kindness to families and students with disabilities)
The Alphabet War: A Story about Dyslexia by Diane Burton Robb
Sosu’s Call by Meshack Asare (1999 UNESCO Prize, story of courage)
The Black Book of Colors By: Menena Cottin, Rosana Faria, Elisa Amado (A beautiful book to step into the World of being visually impaired.)
Eukee the Jumpy Jumpy Elephant By: Clifford L. Corman MD, Esther Trevino and Richard A. Dimatteo (A book about ADD)
Talking to Angels By: Esther Watson (A book about autism)
Blueberry Eyes By: Monica Driscoll Beatty, Peg Michel (A book about eye treatment)
Dad and Me in the Morning By: Patricia Lakin, Robert G. Steele (A book about hearing impairment)
Now One Foot, Now the Other by: Tomie dePaola (a grandson and grandpa dealing with disablility)
Knots on a Counting Rope By: Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault, Ted Rand (A Book about confidence in blindness)
We’ll Paint the Octopus Red By: Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Pam Devito (A book about Down’s Syndrome)
Moses Goes to School By: Isaac Millman (A boy who attends a school for the visually impaired)
Moses Goes to the Circus By: Isaac Millman (A boy who attends a school for the visually impaired)
Moses Sees a Play By: Isaac Millman (A boy who attends a school for the visually impaired)
Moses Goes to a Concert By: Isaac Millman (A boy who attends a school for the visually impaired)
Sarah’s Sleepover By: Bobbie Rodriguez, Mark Graham (Overcoming visual impairment)
Reach For the Moon By: Samantha Abeel, Charles R. Murphy (affirmation and hope from someone who works through disability)
Sarah and Puffle: A Story for Children about Diabetes By: Linnea Mulder
A Very Special Critter By: Mercer Mayer (A book about students with physical disability)
Leo the Late Bloomer By: Robert Kraus, Jose Aruego (All kids develop in and grow in their own time)
Do you have any stories I can add to this list?
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‘bookmarking’ this one!
Awesome! I’m going to ‘pin’ them today too.
Thanks for this post. Definitely going to keep these in mind when we start reading non-board books to Felix
I’m going to go back and read them to my kids. I didn’t know a lot of them were out there!
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Hello! I wanted to share this with you, as this children’s book on Visitability may be of interest. Full disclosure: I am the co-author, along with Eleanor Smith, the founder of Concrete Change…
Libby and the Cape of Visitability
We’re glad to announce that the first children’s book on Visit-ability has been launched!
Libby, Aria and Benjamin have been best friends since they were babies. Now Aria has moved to a new house. Libby, who uses a wheelchair, doesn’t get invited to Aria’s birthday party because the house has barriers. Hurt feelings follow… Then the kids meet Everett, an adult wheelchair athlete, who tells them how the disability rights movement gained successes through years of public demonstrations and pressing for laws. Everett shows them a photo from the 70’s showing people with disabilities blocking inaccessible buses. The kids are inspired to create their own version of public action to achieve the goal of a step-free entrance and wide bathroom doors in every new house. Learn how the kids get on the front page of their hometown paper, as their method gets them in trouble -– and how they achieve a sweet victory. “”Libby and the Cape of Visitability”” is the diary of Libby, a KWD (Kid with Disability).
Written for children ages 8-13, this book raises awareness of the exclusion created when houses are not built with simple features that allow mobility-impaired people to visit or live in them. For those grownups (teachers, parents and others) who engage in meaningful dialogue with children, this book provides not only a captivating story and relatable characters, but a Reader’s Guide with discussion questions and resources as well.Written by Eleanor Smith, a housing rights worker, and Nadeen Green, a teacher, writer and blogger on the topic of fair housing.
You can find and order Libby for your Kindle, Nook, Sony eReader, iPad, etc. in numerous online outlets, including AuthorHouse ( http://www.authorhouse.com/ – just type the title in the box at the upper right), Amazon.com for Kindles, and BarnesandNoble.com for Nooks. For those of you without e-readers, you can order and download the book to your computer by clicking on the free Kindle reading app at Amazon.com. You can help spread the Visitability movement by reading the book, blogging about it, reviewing it, tweeting, posting on Facebook etc.!