Hello! In honor of Disability Book Week, I wanted to share a small list of titles that promote disability representation in books. I know how thrilled Wyatt gets when he sees someone in a wheelchair in a book or in a movie, and I look for books for him that have wheelchair users or characters with cerebral palsy, that are represented in positive ways. We all like to see ourselves in books, or recognize small bits of us at least, and I am glad that writers these days are being inclusive of all or are at least working on it. This is especially important these days, when so many books are being banned, especially books that contain characters from marginalized communities.

This list is mainly comprised of books for elementary up to YA age groups, but that doesn’t mean that adults can’t read them!

*The longer I work on this list, the longer the list gets. I am going to put a few representative books on here, then make a dedicated page with a list of just titles and authors that is more comprehensive

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Wheelchair Users

Emori Wears Green || Logan’s Greenhouse || Seal Surfer || Amazing

Zac’s Mighty Wheels || The Chance to Fly || Roll With It || Where You See Yourself || The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines || Please Pay Attention || Out of My Mind

Cerebral Palsy

Shiny Misfits || Sam’s Super Seats || Truly Wildly Deeply || The Secret Summer Promise || You, Me, and Our Heartstrings || Wild and Crooked || A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Chronic Illness

No Matter the Distance || One for All || Joined at the Joints || All the Right Reasons || A Fragile Enchantment || Ghosts || Hummingbird

Hearing/Vision/Speech

Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? || Opal Watson Private Eye || El Deafo || Wildoak || When Stars are Scattered || Song for a Whale || Give Me a Sign

ASD/ADHD

A Boy Called Bat || All the Noise at Once || Each Tiny Spark || The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family || Harriet Hound || Izzy at the End of the World

Limb Differences/Hip Dysplasia

Aven Green Sleuthing Machine || When Charley Met Emma || Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus || Breathe and Count Back from Ten

Mental Health/OCD/Anxiety

My Life in the Fish Tank || Turtles All the Way Down || Popcorn || Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute || The Compulsion Cloud

If you have any titles to recommend, let me know in the comments below!