Disability in Children's Literature. Disabilities in Children's Lit. Empowering Kids Books About Disability: Stories About Inclusion & Disability Rights - Books For Littles. [Featured Image Description: Book cover for Rosie The Raven, by Helga Bansch. The rest of the images in this post are book covers from the preceding text]. This is the first of a four-series post: In this post, you’ll find self-empowering books featuring characters with disabilities, learn how to talk about disabled people so your kids don’t embarrass you in public, and discover how to recognize ableism in children’s books. If you’re new to the disability rights movement and a social model of disability, let’s start from the beginning. Disabled lives are lives worth living. Out loud, please; Disabled kids deserve the same rights to life, autonomy, and respect as any non-disabled child.
Children’s Disability Books Are Hot Rubbish You’ve got some work to do. Our society is hostile to physically and cognitively disabled people. The good news is that racism and sexism in literature is falling out of style. Stop settling for rubbish books that feed into ableism and non-disabled supremacy. Ages 4+