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Year Character Book(s) Author(s) Disability Ref. 1995 Nessarose, AKA Wicked Witch of the East: Wicked: Gregory Maguire: Born without arms. [citation needed] 1851 Captain Ahab: Moby Dick: Herman Melville: A whale bit off Ahab's leg, and he stands on what's left of the bone. The sound of his ivory limb echoes on the deck.
Every character in the story represents a different disability. 2022 Picture book ABC Let's Celebrate You and Me [20] Sugar Snap Studio Features several characters with limb differences, including a boy with a prosthetic right leg, a boy with a prosthetic left leg, a boy with two short fingers on his left hand, and a girl without a left hand. 2021
Fictional characters with mental disorders (20 C, 151 P) Fictional characters missing an eye (1 C, 57 P) Fictional characters with musculoskeletal system disorders (1 C, 5 P)
Year Character(s) Book Author(s) Country Notes Ref. 1964 Manfred Steiner Martian Time-Slip: Philip K. Dick USA [149] 1996 Seth Garin The Regulators: Stephen King (under the pen name Richard Bachman) USA [150] 1996 Simon Lynch Simple Simon: Ryne Douglas Pearson USA: Adapted into the film Mercury Rising (1998). [151] [152] 2000 Marty Zellerbach ...
Published more than 60 years old, this story captivates kids with the epic antics of a mischievous feline and his sidekicks, Thing 1 and Thing 2. The family's pet, a goldfish, serves as the voice ...
Professor Ian Davidson and colleagues analyzed the depiction of disabled characters in a collection of 19th children's literature from the Toronto Public Library. [5] The researchers found certain common characteristics of disability representation in 19th-century children's literature: disabled characters rarely appeared as individuals, but are usually depicted as impersonal groups and ...
Here are some of our favorite books that celebrate disability pride to add to your TBR pile. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
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