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Disability Pride July 2026 |
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Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You
by Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia and her friends plant a garden, and each one contributes in his or her own special way, in a book that celebrates the many differences among humans.
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Mighty Mara
by Carina Ho
Welcome to Sametown where everyone and everything is ... well ... the same. Except our protagonist: Mighty Mara! She's a little different. While her classmates sign up and ready their performances for the school talent show, Mara musters up the courage to also sign up--but unlike the others, she's going to dance, dance, dance! The only problem is, everyone encourages her not to! Mara won't let her classmates' heckling and teacher's dissuading rock her spirit. She forges on, and by the night of the talent show, she just may shake some new life into her muted town--
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Woodpecker Girl
by Chingyen Liu
A little girl was born with cerebral palsy, a condition that rendered her wheelchair bound. One day, her art teacher affixed a paintbrush to her forehead with a headband. From then, the little girl was able to express herself and freely explore the world through her paintings.
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Up and Adam
by Debbie Zapata
A boy with Down syndrome lifts spirits all over town! It's the day after the big storm. Adam and his dog, Up, are finishing breakfast when the mayor appears on TV asking everyone to help with the cleanup. She says, Now, it's time to get to work. Up and at 'em! When Adam hears the mayor tell him and Up to get to work, he's on it! We can help! Adam says. And as everyone in the town is about to discover --- they really can! With kindness in his heart and a smile on his face, Adam shows readers that everyone can make a difference in their community!
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Outside Amelia's Window
by Caroline Nastro
Amelia is shy finding solace in fairy tales but finds the courage to make friends with her new neighbors and embark on an adventure in her new wheelchair with the help of a litte bird outside her window.
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Obioma Plays Football
by Chika Unigwe
9 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her the girl with the wheelchair. Obioma misses playing football most of all, until one day a girl named Ayana asks her to race. Once they start playing football, everyone joins in and Obioma finds a new team to play with!
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Flap Your Hands: A Celebration of Stimming
by Steve Asbell
This fascinating, groundbreaking picture book by an autistic creator celebrates stims--the repetitive movements that provide focused stimulation to people on the autistic spectrum.
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Aaron Slater, Illustrator: A Picture Book
by Andrea Beaty
When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.
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Song in the City
by Daniel Bernstrom
A young girl, filled with the sounds of her beloved city, shares a song with her grandmother that changes the two forever. After helping Grandma realize that the city makes music as beautiful as the sounds they hear in church on Sunday morning, the two sit down and take in all the sounds of the city together.
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Cesaria Feels the Beat
by Denise Rosario Adusei
In this powerful and inspiring picture book, a deaf girl stands up for herself and takes off her shoes while dancing at her Carnival performance so she can feel the music through her bare feet.
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Logan's Greenhouse
by Janay Brown-Wood
The third title in JaNay Brown-Wood and Samara Hardy's Where in the Garden? picture book series stars Logan, a young boy who uses a wheelchair and accessible tools while gardening in his greenhouse. Playful text guides young readers to hunt for visual clues and compare and contrast the unique characteristics of carrots against sweet potatoes, leeks, turnips, and other produce that grows in Logan's greenhouse.
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Wanda Hears the Stars: A Blind Astronomer Listens to the Universe
by Amy S. Hansen
Growing up in Puerto Rico, Wanda Dâiaz Merced wanted to study the stars. But when she lost her sight, she had to find a new way to work. Through the use of sonification, which turns data into sound, she was able to make a path for herself and other scientists with disabilities.
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Monster Hands
by Karen Kane
Two best friends use rhyming ASL to help vanquish their fear of the monster under the bed ... When nighttime comes, Milo has a problem--he's convinced there's a monster under his bed! Luckily, his best friend Mel knows just what to do--scare the monster more than the monster scares you! So using shadow puppets on the wall, Mel and Milo make monster hands that roar, chomp and even laugh to scare the monster away--
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Sam's Super Seats
by Keah Brown
Sam, who has cerebral palsy, goes back-to-school shopping with her best friends.
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My Life with Cerebral Palsy
by Mari C. Schuh
Meet Charles! He likes music and being with his family. He also has cerebral palsy. Charles is real and so are his experiences. Learn about his life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students.
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Benji, the Bad Day, and Me
by Sally J. Pla
Sammy is having the absolute rottenest, worst day ever. After he walks home in the pouring rain, he finds his autistic little brother Benji is having a bad day too. .
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All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything
by Annette Bay Pimentel
Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Jennifer Keelan grew up battling-and overcoming-the limitations others set for her. From a lack of cutaway curbs and bus lifts to being denied enrollment at her neighborhood school, Jennifer was continually blocked from living the life she wanted. But after discovering the world of disability rights activism, she knew she had to use her voice to change things. When Jennifer was just eight years old, she participated in the Capitol Crawl. The deeply affecting image of Jennifer crawling up the steps of Capitol Hill went viral and helped pressure Congress into passing the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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The Boy Who Found His Voice
by Tyler Gordon
There once was a young boy who had trouble with words. He paused and stuttered and stammered, which made school really tough. But with encouragement from his mom and a paintbrush in hand, he learns that finding your voice isn't about being perfect--it's about being true to yourself.
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Pierce County Library System
3005 112th St. E, Tacoma, Washington 98446
253-548-3300mypcls.org |
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