When I was a little kid with hearing loss, I never read any books with characters who had a disability just like me. I felt like my disability made me different when I was a little kid, and I wish I saw people who had the same disability as me in books I read and shows I watched.
Fortunately, there is an increasing number of children’s books that do feature disabled characters. Some of these books recently were celebrated at the Schneider Family Book Awards, which “honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.” If you are looking for children’s books that feature disabled characters, we asked members of the Mighty’s disability community to
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