Naperville Public Library Home Page
Logo
Children's Booklist - Learning with Disabilities


Title: The Sidewalk patrol
Author: Brimner, Larry Dane
Summary: Abby and her friends take time to move some bicycles so that their blind neighbor can walk on the sidewalk.


Title: Arnie and the new kid
Author: Carlson, Nancy L
Summary: When an accident requires Arnie to use crutches, he begins to understand the limits and possibilities of his new classmate, who has a wheelchair.


Title: Big brother Dustin
Author: Carter, Alden R
Summary: A boy with Down Syndrome helps his parents and grandparents get ready for the birth of his baby sister and chooses the perfect name for her.


Title: Harry and Willy and Carrothead
Author: Caseley, Judith
Summary: Three boys overcome prejudicial ideas about appearances and become friends.


Title: Mama zooms
Author: Cowen-Fletcher, Jane
Summary: A boy's wonderful mama takes him zooming everywhere with her, because her wheelchair is a zooming machine.


Title: The flight of a dove
Author: Day, Alexandra
Summary: Four-year-old Betsy, an autistic child, begins to improve after she sees a dove, one of the animals at her preschool, fly into the air. Based on a true story.


Title: Just a little different
Author: Dobkin, Bonnie
Summary: A child relates how he and his best friend, who is in a wheelchair, are both alike and different.


Title: My brother Sammy
Author: Edwards, Becky
Summary: A boy describes some of the many feelings he has about his brother Sammy, who is autistic.


Title: Looking after Louis
Author: Ely, Lesley.
Summary: When a new boy with autism joins their classroom, the children try to understand his world and to include him in theirs.


Title: Howie helps himself
Author: Fassler, Joan
Summary: Though he enjoys life with his family and attends school, Howie, a child with cerebral palsy, wants more than anything else to be able to move his wheelchair by himself.


Title: Ben, king of the river
Author: Gifaldi, David
Summary: Chad experiences a range of emotions when he goes camping with his parents and his five-year-old mentally disabled brother Ben who has many developmental problems.


Title: Nice wheels
Author: Hooks, Gwendolyn
Summary: The classmates of a new boy at school find that, although he is in a wheelchair, he can do what they do.


Title: Dad and me in the morning
Author: Lakin, Pat
Summary: A deaf boy and his father share a special time as they watch the sun rise at the beach.


Title: Becky the brave : a story about epilepsy
Author: Lears, Laurie
Summary: Nothing seems to scare Sarah's big sister Becky, until having an epileptic seizure makes her reluctant to return to school, and so Sarah summons her own courage to explain the disease to the other students.


Title: Ian's walk : a story about autism
Author: Lears, Laurie.
Summary: A young girl realizes how much she cares for her autistic brother Ian when he gets lost at the park.


Title: Nathan's wish : a story about cerebral palsy
Author: Lears, Laurie
Summary: A boy with cerebral palsy helps out at a raptor rehabilitation center and is inspired himself when an owl that cannot fly finds another purpose in life.


Title: Moses goes to the circus
Author: Millman, Isaac
Summary: Moses, who is deaf, has a good time with his family at the circus, where they communicate using sign language. Includes illustrations of some of the signs they use.


Title: Different just like me
Author: Mitchell, Lori
Summary: While preparing for a visit to her grandmother, a young girl notices that, like the flowers in Grammie's garden, people who are different from one another also share similarities and it's okay to like them all the same.


Title: I have a sister--my sister is deaf
Author: Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse
Summary: A young girl describes how her deaf sister experiences everyday things.


Title: The secret code
Author: Rau, Dana Meachen
Summary: Oscar, who is blind, teaches Lucy how to read his Braille book.


Title: Sarah's sleepover
Author: Rodriguez, Bobbie
Summary: When the lights go out while her cousins are spending the night, a young blind girl shows them what to do in the dark.


Title: All kinds of friends, even green!
Author: Senisi, Ellen B
Summary: In a school assignment, seven-year-old Moses, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, reflects that his neighbor's disabled iguana resembles him because they both have figured out how to get where they want to be in different ways than those around them.


Title: Just kids : visiting a class for children with special needs
Author: Senisi, Ellen B
Summary: Second-grader Cindy is assigned to spend part of each day in the class for students with special needs, where she finds out that even though some kids may learn differently or have different abilities, they are all just kids.


Title: Just like you
Author: Albee, Sarah
Summary: A new girl, who uses a wheelchair, joins the Sesame Street preschool and shows the children that she enjoys doing many of the same things they do.


Title: What's wrong with Timmy?
Author: Shriver, Maria
Summary: Making friends with a mentally retarded boy helps Kate learn that the two of them have a lot in common.


Title: The best worst brother
Author: Stuve-Bodeen, Stephanie
Summary: Older sister Emma tries to be patient while teaching three-year-old Isaac, who has Down syndrome, how to communicate using sign language. Includes questions and answers about sign language.


Title: Susan laughs
Author: Willis, Jeanne
Summary: Rhyming couplets describe a wide range of common emotions and activities experienced by a little girl who uses a wheelchair.


Title: My friend Isabelle
Author: Woloson, Eliza
Summary: A young boy named Charlie describes the activities he shares with his friend Isabelle, a girl with Down Syndrome.