Book Categories: Differences

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We’re All Wonders

Countless fans have asked R. J. Palacio to write a book for younger readers. With We’re All Wonders, she makes…

© 2017 R. J. Palacio
Audience: Children

What Does Normal Mean?

The 60 minute documentary film “What Does Normal Mean?” follows seven students with disabilities through an academic year as they…

© 2006 Ben Daits, Dale Sonnenberg, Matt Sneddon, Producers
Audience: Adolescents/Teens, Parent, Professional

What It’s Like To Be Me

Written and illustrated entirely by children with disabilities, this wonderful book gives individual accounts from the authors as to what…

© 1984/1995 Edited By Exley, Helen
Audience: Children, Parent, Professional

What Makes Me Special

A children’s book about a little girl who flaps her arms like a bee when she is excited. The moral…

© 2015 Elizabeth McKinney
Audience: Children

What’s Wrong With Timmy?

Touching story about 8 year old Kate and her first meeting with Timmy, a young boy with a developmental disability….

© 2001 Shriver, Maria
Audience: Children

When Charley Met Emma

When Charley goes to the playground and sees Emma, a girl with limb differences who gets around in a wheelchair,…

© 2019 Amy Webb
Audience: Children

Whoever You Are

A celebration of the world’s diverse cultures, both our similarities and differences. Leslie Straub’s innovative, colorful, folk art–style oil paintings of…

© 1997 Fox, Mem
Audience: Children

Why Am I Different?

Book Cover, Why Am I Different?

Portrays everyday situations in which children see themselves as “different” in family life, preferences, and aptitudes, and yet feel that…

© 1976 Simon, Norman
Audience: Children

Zink The Zebra – A Special Tale

Zink the zebra has spots instead of stripes, causing her to be treated differently by the other zebras. However in…

© 1996 Weil, Kelly
Audience: Children