Handicapped (Picture Books)

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• Adler, David A. Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1997.
• Balancing Girl     Rabe...............     1st grader in wheel chair. (K-2)
• Be Good to Eddie Lee
• Be Good to Eddie Lee   Fleming.........Eddie w.Down's shares adv.w.Christy(Pri)*
• Be Good to Eddie Lee -- he has down syndrome
• Bonnett Stein, Sara. About Handicaps: An Open Family Book for Parents and Children Together. New York: Walker and Company, 1974.
• Button in Her Ear   Litchfield..........  Limited hearing. NF (1-3)Whitman (Concept Books)
• Cakes and Miracles     Goldin...............   Blind Hershel has special gifts (Pri)
• Carlson. Arnie and the New Kid. Viking, 1990.
• Carlson. Here Comes Kate! Steck-Vaughn, 1989.
• Caseley, Judith.  Harry and Willy and Carrothead.  New York: Greenwillow, 1991. Summary: Harry is born without a left arm.  Happy and normal in every way, he enters school with a prosthetic arm.  Harry and Oscar, who is teased because of his red hair, become good friends.  When Harry defends Oscar against Willy's teasing, all three become friends.
• Charlip, Remy. Handtalk Birthday: a number and storybook in sign language. New York: Four Winds Press, 1987.
• Cohen, Mirian. See You Tomorrow, Charles. New York: Greenwillow, 1983.
• Different and Alike       McConnell........ Disabled struggle; yet resemble all. (Pri)
• Dobkin. Just a Little Different. Children's Press, 994. (Rookie Reader)
• Don't Feel Sorry for Paul, by Bernard Wolf. Nonfiction, great photographs -  about a boy born with only partial legs and arms.
• Fanshawe, Elizabeth. Rachel. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1975.
• Fassler, Joan. Howie Helps Himself. Chicago: Whitman, 1975.
• Friends in the Park        Bunnett.........Children, some disabled, spend day in park.  RL 2
• Friends in the Park      a number of disabilities represented
• Grandma's Walk   Hines.................  Grandma in wheelchair "walks". (K-3)
• Great Uncle Alfred Forgets      Shecter............ Alzheimer's.  (K-3)*
• Gregory, Nan. How Smudge Came. Red Deer, Alta: Red Deer College Press, 1995.
• Growl When You Say R    Stanek..............Speech problem. JH. Whitman (Concept Books)
• Handmade Alphabet      Rankin...............   Sign Language. (Pri)*
• Handtalk Zoo    Ancona............Sign Language.  Photos.  (K-3)*
• Handtalk: an ABC of Finger     Charlip..............   Sign Language. Photos. (Pri)
• Harry and Willy and Carrothead_, by Judith Caseley. [Greenwillow, 1991] Harry was born with part of his left arm missing, and wears a prothesis.  It's a great story, and the kids love it.  (It's a picture book).
• Harshman. The Storm. Cobblehill, 1995.
• Howie Helps Himself" [by Joan Fassler. Albert Whitman, 1987]
• I'm Deaf, and It's Okay  [Lorraine Aseltine, Albert Whitman, 1987.]
• It's Charles!    Visually handicapped
• Jenny's Magic Wand       Visually handicapped
• Jensen, Virginia Allen. Catching: A Book for Blind and Sighted Children with Pictures to Feel as well as to See. New York: Philomel Books, 1983.
• Keats, Ezra Jack. Apt. 3. New York: Macmillan Co., 1971.
• Kids on the Block by Barbara Aiello, though it is geared for intermediate readers rather than primary.
• Knots on a Counting Rope     Martin, Bill........   Indian grandpa and blind grandson.(K-3)*
• Lasker, Joe. Nick Joins In. Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1980.
• Lester, Helen.  Hooway for Wodney Wat. published by Scholastic, recommended to me by someone on this list when I asked for a book to assist with a speech-impared child.
• Listen for the Bus: David's Story   McMahon........  Blind child. (K-3)*
• Litchfield, Ada B. A Button in Her Ear. Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1976.
• Mackinnon, Christy.  Silent Observer.  Washington D.C:  Kendall Green, 1993. Summary:  Christy was born in 1889 and became deaf after a childhood illness.  As part of a large family on the family farm, she learned to communicate with signs and special help from her sister who was also hearing impaired. Eventually a neighbor, Alexander Graham Bell, tested her hearing and recommended that she be enrolled in a special school for the deaf in Halifax, where she met Helen Keller.  She became an notable illustrator, and this story and illustrations were found among her things after her death.
• MacLachlan, Patricia. Through Grandpa's Eyes. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
• Mama Zooms     Cowen-F...........      Mother in wheelchair.  (K-2.)*
• Mama Zooms. [Jane Cowan-Fletcher. Scholastic pb, 1996.] A short picture book. Clever pictures give hints but don't reveal the wheelchair until towards the end.
• Millman, Isaac.  Moses Goes to a Concert.  New York: Farrar, 1998. Summary: Moses and his class, all deaf, attend a children's concert where they experience the music with balloons in their laps in order to feel the vibrations.  A deaf percussionist performs with the orchestra.  That night Moses tells his parents about the experience in signed English.  Inserted into many pages are blocks that show the ASL symbols for some of the words, as well as the signed alphabet on the last page.
• Moccasin Goalie   Brownridge............   Danny plays hockey despite disability. (K-3)*
• Moon, Nicola.  Lucy's Picture.  New York: Dial, 1994. Summary:  In a preschool setting, a young girl is asked to paint a picture. She decides to make a picture for her grandfather.  Instead of paint, she fashions paper, fabric, leaves, sand, feathers, and even her own hair into a three-dimensional collage.  We discover that her grandfather is blind.
• Moore, Eva.  Buddy: The First Seeing Eye Dog.  New York: Scholastic, 1996. Summary:  A factual account of the development of The Seeing Eye, a program in NJ that trains dogs to guide people who are blind.  After reading of a school in Germany to train dogs to guide blinded soldiers, Dorothy Eustis adopted the technique and began training dogs.  Her first dog was teamed with a blind American, Morris Frank.  Coming to America, Buddy and his owner became famous.  In easy reader format.
• My Buddy    Osofsky....... "This is a good one." Dog helps child w. muscular dystrophy (K-3)*
• My First Book of Sign    Baker.................Sign Language. Gallaudet pub. (Pri)*
• My Friend Jacob    Clifton, L...........   8 yr-old's friendship w.retarded teen. (Pri)
• My Friend Leslie     Rosenberg.......        Multi-handicapped child in K. Photos (Pri)
• Nick Joins In     Lasker...............   Nick in wheelchair starts school. (K-3)*
• Our Brother Has Down's Syndrome    Cairo, S..........    Photos.  Three sisters show life with their brother, 1985   (K-3)*
• Our Teacher's in a Wheelchair    Powers.............   Male day care teacher. Photos. (Pri)*
• Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse. I have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf. New York: Harper & Row
• Picture Book of Helen Keller   Adler, D.............   Blind and deaf. BIOG.(1-3)*
• Pridmore, Saxby. Julia, Mungo, and the earthquake: A Story for Young People About Epilepsy. New York: Maninatioin Press, 1991.
• See You Tomorrow, Charles     Cohen, M......... Blind 1st grader. Ill.Lillian Hoban. (K-3)*
• Seeing Stick   Yolen, J............    Blind girl in ancient China. (1-4)
• Talking to Angels     Watson........   Author's autistic sister.  (K-3)*
• The Balancing Girl by Rabe - the main character is in a wheelchair - very nice story
• The Berenstain Bears and the Wheelchair Commando
• The Serendipity series [I think this is a series mostly by Stephen Cosgrove, easy readers, each having a moral, many on differences and also conflict  resolution. Price, Stern & Sloan.]
• Thinking Big       Kuklin  8 yr-old dwarf.  Photos. BIOG. (2-5)
• Through Grandpa's Eyes      MacLachlan..... Blind grandpa "sees". (1-5)*
• Very Special Critter      Mayer, M...........     Physical & mental disabilities.  (K-1)*
• We Can Do It!     Dwight, L..........   Photos of 5 disabled children. (RL 2)*
• When Smudge Came*.  [How Smudge Came. Nan Gregory.] It is a picture book about a girl (Cindy) with Down's who finds a puppy and tries to keep it only to discover that puppies are not allowed in her group home. The best thing about this book is that we only know about Cindy's mental disability through the illustrations - it is only hinted in her speech patterns and her daily routine.
• Where's Chimpy?       Rabe, B.............    Down's Syndrome.  Pre-school level.*
• Wolf, Bernard. Anna's Silent World. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Company, 1977.
• Wolf, Bernard. Don't Feel Sorry for Paul. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Company, 1974.
• Wolf, Bernard. HIV Positive. New York: Dutton Children's Press, 1997.
• Yolen, Jane. The Seeing Stick. New York: Crowell, 1977.
• Young, Hellen. What Difference does it Make, Danny? London: Andre Deutsch, 1980.

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