![]() ![]() The accounts in this collection ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be “fixed,” but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. Disability Visibility was created with the understanding that narratives and work from disabled creators matter and that there should be more opportunities for disabled writers and journalists to publish and tell the stories that belong to them. The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. Image 25: a circular photo of Lucy and James, sitting with a pile of books from the list.Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences." - Chicago Tribune, "Best books published in summer 2020" (Vintage/Knopf Doubleday edition). Images 3 to 24 are screenshots of the book covers. Image 2: a collage of all the children’s books on our list, from Can Bears Ski? to A Face For Picasso. Image 1: a collage of all the adult books on our list, from Being Heumann to Disability Visibility She has a particular interest in fairytales.Ĭindy Baldwin’s twitter thread on disability tropes in fiction is something everyone should read. Jen Campbell says fascinating things about disfigurement and representation on her YouTube channel. (The Fries Test sets out to be an equivalent to the Bechdel test for disability.) Nicola Griffith, author of So Lucky (one of the very few fiction titles on our list) keeps track of fiction that passes the Fries Test here on her blog. Margaret Kingsbury – queen of disability book lists – has written about the current state of disability in children’s books for Bookriot. We’ve written lots about it here on this blog.įor more disabled people who talk about books: But it’s beautifully illustrated by Karen George, the author is definitely disabled, and we get lovely, lovely feedback on it, from disabled and non-disabled readers. ![]() Clearly this is a book we could not be more biased on – one of us wrote it. But Amazon put it on their list, so I thought I’d tack it onto the end here. What Happened to You? – a picture book by James Catchpole, illustrated by Karen George You can also find our list over on UK and US Bookshop. We do make a percentage on any orders made through Blackwell’s links on this page – our local bookshop, they deliver internationally, postage included. We were paid for our time, but don’t make anything from purchases over there. Note: we made this list as part of a presentation about disability representation for Amazon. Whether you borrow them from libraries, buy them locally or online, or through our affiliate Blackwell’s links below, we hope you track down and enjoy some of these books. The expansion comes from becoming part of a community. Any list is very subjective, but we looked into every recommendation. Enormous thanks to everyone who made recommendations over on Instagram. And all these disabled authors deserve congratulations, book sales, and a bucket load of cake/wine/insert chosen vice. Moving away from that is going to take a while. Disability has been exploited as a dramatic device in literature for centuries. We wanted great writing, disability or disabled characters at the forefront, and no bad depictions that made us wince. Making this list was an interesting process. Because unsurprisingly, they just do it better. ![]() But the books we chose are all by disabled authors. We looked for books with great representations of disability, by anyone. Adult fiction and non-fiction, poetry, YA, middle-grade and picture books – as disabled people working in publishing, these are our favourites. ![]()
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