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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
In the first book of the series, Adam becomes deaf in his left ear due to abuse. [13] 2012 Hazel Grace Lancaster, Augustus Waters, and several other characters The Fault in our Stars: John Green: The book is about characters with several types of cancer and resulting disabilities including a blind character and one with a prosthetic leg. [14 ...
Freak the Mighty is a young adult novel by Rodman Philbrick.Published in 1993, it was followed by the novel Max the Mighty in 1998. The primary characters are friends Maxwell Kane, a large, developmentally disabled, but kind-hearted boy, and Kevin Avery, nicknamed "Freak", who is physically disabled but very intelligent.
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)
He is also disabled. The character is referred to as a “hunchback” by a rude rival in the books — an example of the attitude of the Tudor period, with no allowance or acceptance of differences.
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Despite approximately one third of people over 65 years of age being affected by disabling hearing loss [1] Deaf adult characters are significantly underrepresented in children's books; even within books which do include a Deaf character. There have been several studies into how Deaf children are portrayed in children's literature.