Children's Books About
Handicaps and Disabilities

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.

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