Additional LiteraturePhysical/Mental Differences:
Book Title: The Balancing GirlAuthor: Berniece Rabe
Publisher and Date: E. P. Dutton, 1981
Summary: Margaret, who uses a wheelchair or crutches, can make anything balance. Tommy, a child in her school class, doesn't appreciate her talent and often knocks down her towers. Margaret wants him to know that she really is doing something special, so for the school carnival she builds an intricate tower of dominoes. Tommy wins the chance to knock them all down.
Book Title: Handtalk Birthday: a Number Story Book in Sign LanguageAuthor: Remy Charlip, Mary Beth and George Ancona
Publisher and Date: Four Winds Press, 1987
Summary: This is the story of a surprise birthday party for a deaf woman. It is told in words and American Sign Language.
Book Title: Silent Lotus
Author: Jeanne M. Lee
Publisher and Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991
Summary: Lotus was born deaf and had never learned to talk. She learned to dance with the birds and was generally happy, except that the other children wouldn't play with her. Her parents took her to the temple in the capital city, hoping for a miracle. While there, Lotus saw the royal dancers. She wanted to become a dancer also. Through her dance training, she learned to express herself without words and made many friends.
Book Title: Lucy's Picture
Author: Nicola Moon
Publisher and Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1995
Summary: Lucy's blind Grandpa is coming to visit and so she makes him a special picture that he can feel.
Book Title: The Seeing Stick
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher and Date: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977
Summary: The emperor's daughter had everything but sight, until an old man brought her his seeing stick. As he carved stories into the stick, he taught the young girl to see with her hands.
Book Title: Through Grandpa's Eyes
Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher and Date: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980
Summary: John sees his Grandpa's house the way his blind Grandpa does, by learning to use his other senses to ësee.'