Children's Books About
Handicaps and Disabilities

I looked at 10 respected resources on the subject of bibliotherapy for and about children with disabilities.

Each site had a list. One had two.

I examined each list to find the books they had in common. Books that repeated on 3, 4, 5 or even 6 lists appear on this children's books about handicaps and disabilities page.

The books that still managed to appear on two lists appear below.

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• Alex Is My Friend (Wheelchair) by Marisabina Russo
• Andy Opens Wide (Cerebral Palsy) by Nan Holcomb
• Apt. 3 (Blindness) by Ezra Jack Keats
• Arnie and the New Kid (Wheelchair) by Nancy Carlson
• The Best Fight (Dyslexia) by Anne Schlieper
• Buddy: The First Seeing Eye Dog (Blindness) by Eva Moore
• Buster and the Amazing Daisy: Adventures with Asperger's Syndrome by Nancy Ogaz
• A Button in her Ear (Deafness) by Ada Bassett Litchfield
• Crazy Lady (Mental Disability) by Jane Leslie Conly
• Danny and the Merry-Go-Round (Wheelchair) by Nan Holcomb
• Dinosaur Hill (Cerebral Palsy) by Diana Loski
• Don't Call Me Special: a First Look at Disability (Assorted Physical Disabilities) by Pat Thomas
• Eddie Enough! (ADHD) by Debbie Zimmett
• Fair and Square (Physical Disability) by Nan Holcomb
• The Ghost of Grania O'Malley (Cerebral Palsy) by Michael Morpurgo
• The Gift of the Girl Who Couldn't Hear by Susan Shreve
• Handtalk Birthday (Deafness) by Remy Charlip
• Hi, I'm Adam: A Child's Book About Tourette Syndrome by Adam Buehrens
• How About a Hug (Down Syndrome) by Nan Holcomb
• How Dyslexic Benny Became a Star; A Story of Hope for Dyslexic Children and Their Parents by Joe Griffith
• How It Feels to Live with a Physical Disability (Assorted) by Jill Krementz
• I'm Like You, You're Like Me: A Child's Book About Understanding and Celebrating Each Other (Assorted disabilities) by Cindy Gainer
• How Many Days Until Tomorrow? (Dyslexia) by Caroline Janover
• I'm Deaf, and It's Okay by Lorraine Aseltine
• I'm Joshua and "Yes I Can" (Cerebral Palsy) by Joan Lenett Whinston
• Imagine Me on a Sit-Ski! (Cerebral Palsy) by George Moran
• Joey Pigza Loses Control (ADD) by Jack Gantos
• Just a Little Different (Wheelchair) by Bonnie Dobkin
• Kathy's Hats: A Story of Hope (Cancer, Chemotherapy) by T. Krisher
• Lee, the Rabbit with Epilepsy by Deborah Moss
• Little Tree: A Story for Children with Serious Medical Problems by Joyce C. Mills
• Lucy's Pictures (Blindness) by N. Moon
• The Making of My Special Hand: Madison's Story (Prosthesis) by Jamee Riggio Heelan
• Mama Zooms (Wheelchair) by Jane Cowen-Fletcher
• Mandy Sue Day (Blindness) by Roberta Karim
• The Man Who Loved Clowns (Down's Syndrome) by June Rae Wood
• Margaret's Moves (Spina Bifida) by Bernice Rabe
• The Monument (Physical Disability) by Gary Paulsen
• Moses Goes To a Concert (Deafness) by Isaac Millman
• My Friend Leslie: The Story of a Handicapped Child (Multiple Physical Disabilities) by Maxine B. Rosenberg
• My Mom Is Handicapped: A "Grownup" Children's Book (Polio) by Barbara Turner Brabham
• Now One Foot, Now the Other (Stroke) by Tomie DePaola
• Pay Attention, Slosh (ADHD) by Mark Smith
• A Picture Book of Helen Keller (Blindness, Deafness) by David A. Adler
• Reach for the Moon (Learning Disability) by Samantha Abeel
• Russ and the Apple Tree Surprise (Down Syndrome) by Janet Elizabeth Rickert
• The Safe Place (Learning Disability) by Tehila Peterseil
• Sarah and Puffle: A Story for Children About Diabetes by Linnea
• Sara's Secret (Cerebral Palsy) by Suzanne Wanous
• Seal Surfer (Physical Disability) by Michael Foreman
• Searching the Noonday Trail. (Part of the Gun Lake Gang Adventure series) (Cerebral Palsy) by J. Tuitel
• Seeing Stick (Blindness) by Jane Yolen
• Silent Observer (Deafness) by Christy MacKinnon
• Special People, Special Ways (Assorted Physical and Mental Disabilities) by Arlene Maguire
• Tibby Tried It (Physical Disability) by Sharon and Ernie Useman
• Stay Away From Simon! (Mental Disability) by Carol Carrick
• Stretching Ourselves: Kids With Cerebral Palsy by Alden R. Carter
• Summer of the Swans (Autism) by Betsy Byars
• Through Grandpa's Eyes (Blindness) by Patricia MacLachlan
• A Very Special Sister (Deafness) by Dorothy Hoffman Levi
• We Can Do It! (Assorted Disabilities) by Laura Dwight
• We'll Paint the Octopus Red (Down Syndrome) by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
• What It's Like to Be Me (Assorted Disabilities) by Helen Exley
• What's Wrong With Timmy? (Mental Disabilities) by Maria Shriver
• Whoa, Nellie! (Wheelchair) by H. Benton
• Witch's Fire (Wheelchair) by Beverly Butler

Children's books about handicaps and disabilities

The books above are fiction and non-fiction, picture books and mostly text. For that reason, you'll want to find out more about them to determine which is right for a particular situation.

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Bibliotherapy is the use of books to help children understand, cope and heal. On the bibliotherapy page you can learn more and also find lists of children's books appropriate for other situations.

The children's books about handicaps and disabilities that appeared on more lists are here.

The sources from which the children's books about handicaps and disabilities were drawn were:

• Birmingham (UK) Public Libraries
• C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
• Canisius College (NY)
• Monroe County (IN) Public Library
• Nancy Keane's Children's Literature Webpage
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
• Our-Kids.org
• teachervision.com
• Univ. of S. Carolina Medicine Library
• Worcester (MA) Public Library

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