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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. [12] 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. [13 ...
[6] [7] In response to these campaigns there has been a gradual increase in the quality and quantity of Deaf characters in children's books. BookTrust, a UK children's charity, have published advice for illustrators and publishers on how to naturally include Deaf and disabled characters in children's books. [8]
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)
The book has been translated into 22 different languages and has had a steady spot on the New York […] How to Talk to Your Kids About Disabilities, According to YA Author Sharon M. Draper Skip ...
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"A turning point for me was when I wrote about a fat character and the story was not at all about her size," Renée Watson says. “There is no mention of her size in the book but in my mind, she ...
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 ...