Here is a list of
some of the many from
The Dauphin County Library that
cover topics from "The Kid’s on the Block" program on disability
awareness. If any students would like
to
a book
review of any of these books or other books they may have discovered
in their school library, We would like to hear from them and perhaps include
their book recommendations and reports
on our web page. This page and booklist was last
updated July 2002.
| CEREBRAL PALSY | |
| BLINDNESS | DEAFNESS |
| SPECIAL NEEDS | WHEELCHAIRS |
| MENTAL RETARDATION | SIGN LANGUAGE |
CEREBRAL
PALSY
TITLE Going places : children living with cerebral palsy /
AUTHOR Bergman, Thomas, 1947-
*
TITLE I'm the Big Sister Now
AUTHOR 1) Emmert, Michelle.
2) Owens, Gail,
SUMMARY Nine-year-old Michelle describes the joys, loving times,difficulties,
and other special situations involved in living with her older sister Amy
Emmert, who was born severely disabled with cerebral palsy.
*
TITLE Imagine me on a sit-ski*
AUTHOR ) Moran, George, 1948-
2) Westcott, Nadine Bernard,
SUMMARY A child who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair describes
learning to ski with adaptive equipment.
*
TITLE Sara's secret
AUTHOR 1) Wanous, Suzanne, 1959-
2) Haas, Shelly O.,
SUMMARY At first Sara doesn't want anyone at her new school to now about her younger brother Justin who has cerebral palsy.
TITLE I'm deaf, and it's okay
AUTHOR 1) Aseltine, Lorraine.
2) Mueller, Evelyn.
3) Tait, Nancy.
4) Cogancherry, Helen,
IMPRINT Niles, Ill. : A. Whitman & Co., c1986.
SUMMARY A young boy describes the frustrations caused by his deafness
and the encouragement he receives from a teenager who is deaf to lead an
active life.
2) Ancona, George.
MPRINT New York : Four Winds Press ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada:New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.
SUMMARY Words and sign language depict a group of students involved
in putting on a Thanksgiving play at a school for children who are deaf.
*
TITLE Listening with my heart
AUTHOR Whitestone, Heather.
2) Hunt, Angela Elwell, 1957-
IMPRINT New York : Doubleday, 1997.
SUMMARY The first woman with a disability to win the Miss America Pageant
tells the story of her deafness, love of ballet,education, and challenge
to fulfill her God-given potential.
*
TITLE I have a sister--my sister is deaf
AUTHOR 1) Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse.
IMPRINT New York : Harper & Row, c1977.
SUMMARY A young girl describes how her sister who is deaf experiences
everyday things.
AUTHOR 1) Greene, Laura.
TITLE Sign language
IMPRINT New York : Franklin Watts, 1981.
SUMMARY Discusses the development of sign language and describes how
it is used in conjunction with finger spelling, speechreading,and other
forms of communication to help individuals with impaired hearing.
*
TITLE Cindy, a hearing ear dog
AUTHOR 1) Curtis, Patricia.
IMPRINT New York : Dutton, c1981.
SUMMARY Describes the training of young dogs, selected from pounds
and humane shelters, to help owners who are deaf by alerting them to sounds
they cannot hear and providing companionship.
*
TITLE Night-day, sleep-play : a book of opposites in signed English
AUTHOR 1) Silver, Ann, 1949-
2) Preschool Signed English Project.
IMPRINT Washington : Gallaudet College Press, 1974.
*
TITLE Handtalk birthday : a
number and story book in sign language
AUTHOR 1) Charlip, Remy.
TITLE Handtalk Zoo
AUTHOR 1) Ancona, George,
2) Mary Beth,
IMPRINT New York : Four Winds Press, c1989.
TITLE Moses goes to a concert
AUTHOR Millman, Isaac.
IMPRINT New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
SUMMARY Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where
the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign
language and a page showing the manual alphabet.
WHEELCHAIRS
TITLE Move over, wheelchairs
coming through! Seven young people in wheelchairs talk about their livesAUTHOR
Roy, Ron, 1940-
IMPRINT New York : Clarion Books, c
SUMMARY Text and photographs present seven youngsters between
the ages of nine and nineteen who use wheelchairs in their fully active
lives at home, at school, and on vacation.
TITLE Wheelchair basketball
AUTHOR 1) Labanowich, Stan.
IMPRINT Mankato, Minn. : RiverFront Books, 1998.
SUMMARY Discusses the history, rules, equipment and training related
to wheelchair basketball.
TITLE: Our teacher's in
a wheelchair /
AUTHOR: Powers, Mary Ellen.
Call: (ESA)Summary:
Text and photographs depict the activities of Brian Hanson, who is able
to lead an active existence as a nursery school teacher despite a partial
paralysis requiring the use of a wheelchair.
TITLE What if you couldn't ... ? : A book about special needs
AUTHOR Kamien, Janet.
IMPRINT New York : Scribner, c1979.
*
TITLE The special child : a source book for parents of children with
developmental disabilitiesTeacher resource
AUTHOR 1) Pueschel, Siegfried M.
2) Bernier, James C.
3) Weidenman, Leslie Ellen, 1952-
*
TITLE Mental and emotional disabilities
AUTHOR 1) Dick, Jean.
2) Kantar, Maythee.
IMPRINT Mankato, MN, U.S.A. : Crestwood House, c1988.SUMMARY Discusses
autism, depression, mental retardation, dyslexia, stuttering, hyperactivity,
and other disabilities that we are learning more about.
TITLE: Just kids : visiting a class
for children with special needs
AUTHOR: Senisi, Ellen B.
Call: (ESA)Summary:
Second-grader Cindy is assigned to spend part of each day in the class
for students with special needs, where she finds out that even though some
kids may learn differently or have different abilities, they are all "just
kids."
DOWN SYNDROME / MENTAL RETARDATION
TITLE A special kind of hero : Chris Burke's own story
AUTHOR 1) Burke, Chris, 1965-
2) McDaniel, Jo Beth.
IMPRINT New York : Doubleday, 1991.SUMMARY Biography of Chris Burke
a television actor from the TV series"Life goes on" Chris was born with
Down Syndrome.
TITLE Differences in common : straight talk on mental retardation,Down
syndrome, and life
AUTHOR 1) Trainer, Marilyn
IMPRINT Rockville, Md. : Woodbine House, 1991.
TITLE Naomi knows it's springtime
AUTHOR ) Kroll, Virginia L.
2) Kastner, Jill.
TITLE Mandy Sue Day
AUTHOR 1) Karim, Roberta.
2) Ritz, Karen,
IMPRINT New York : Clarion Books, c1994.SUMMARY Using her senses of
taste, hearing, touch, and smell, a girl who is blind enjoys a special
day on the farm.
*
TITLE Lucy's picture
AUTHOR 1) Moon, Nicola.
2) Ayliffe, Alex,
IMPRINT New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1995.SUMMARY A young
girl creates a special picture that her grandfather who is blind can "see"
with his hands.
*
TITLE Hannah
AUTHOR 1) Whelan, Gloria.
2) Bowman, Leslie W.,
IMPRINT New York : Knopf, c1991.
SUMMARY Hannah, a girl who is blind living in Michigan in the late
nineteenth century, doesn't go to school, until a new teacher comes to
board at their house.
*
TITLE Louis Braille
AUTHOR Bryant, Jennifer.
IMPRINT New York : Chelsea House, c1993.
SUMMARY A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally
blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and
writing used by the blind throughout the world.
TITLE: Apt. 3
AUTHOR: Keats, Ezra Jack.
Call: (CL)
Summary: On a rainy day two brothers
try to discover who is playing the harmonica they hear in their apartment
building.
TITLE:
Out of darkness : the story of Louis Braille/
AUTHOR: Freedman, Russell.
Call: (CL)Summary:
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded
himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots
on paper that enabled people who were blind to read and write.
AUTHOR: Hill, Elizabeth Star
Call: (ESA) JUVENILE FICTION J HILSummary: Chang, a Chinese boy who can not talk, whose father uses cormorants to fish, is pleased when he is finally old enough to help with the Big Catch and the raising of a new bird.
AUTHOR: Davis, Patricia Anne.
Call: (ESA)Summary: Eight-year-old Brian, who is blind, learns how to take care of his new parakeet and comes to realize that his older brother, while sometimes careless, is not so bad after all.
AUTHOR: Alexander, Sally Hobart.Call:
(
ESA)Summary:
Children ask questions of an AUTHOR who
lost her vision at the age of twenty-seven, including "How did you become
blind?" "How can you read?" and "Was it hard to be a parent when you couldn't
see your kids?"
AUTHOR: Strom, Maria Diaz.
Call: (ESA)
PICTURE BOOKS JP S
Summary: Eloise shares her love of colors
with her friend Rainbow Joe, who is blind and makes his own colors when
he plays beautiful notes on his saxophone.
AUTHOR: HEELAN, JAMEE RIGGIO
Call: (ESA)
JUVENILE NON-FICTION JNF
AUTHOR: Bergman, Thomas, 1947-
Call: (CL)Summary: Interviews with a group of children in Sweden-some blind and others partially sighted, reveal their feelings about their disability and the ways they use their other senses to help them "see."