Children's Book Suggestions | Disability Pride Month 2025

A few of our favorite books about kids with disabilities, including learning disabilities and neurodivergence, published in 2024. For more book ideas, check out our Disability Pride Month 2024 Picture Book and Chapter Book lists, our Autism Awareness Month and Mental Health Awareness Month book lists, or browse the library catalog.

More great books are honored annually with the Schneider Family Book Award.

Updated April 17, 2025
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Oregon City Public Library
This is your list in printable form. Simply print this page using your browser's print command.

Children's Book Suggestions | Disability Pride Month 2025

A few of our favorite books about kids with disabilities, including learning disabilities and neurodivergence, published in 2024. For more book ideas, check out our Disability Pride Month 2024 Picture Book and Chapter Book lists, our Autism Awareness Month and Mental Health Awareness Month book lists, or browse the library catalog.

More great books are honored annually with the Schneider Family Book Award.

Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
This is how we play : a celebration of disability and adaptation
Slice, Jessica
Paper Book
A jubilant, inclusive, luminously illustrated picture book that features families at play, each with a family member who has a disability. With love and adaptation, this is how we play! This joyful read-aloud with an empowering refrain, from disability rights activists...

Picture Book (Age 4-8)

We are the scrappy ones
Taussig, Rebekah
Paper Book
We are the scrappy ones. / We live, we adapt, we defy. / Made of stardust and grit, we are spectacular. Children with disabilities experience the world in all kinds of ways. Yet one thing they share is navigating a world that doesn't always make space for them as they are. Existing on the...

Picture Book (Age 4-8)

Hazel has her hands full
Fairbairn, Nathan
Paper Book
More heartwarming and humorous adventures await in the fourth book of this graphic novel series that is the Baby-Sitters Club for pets!     Summer break is just around the corner, and the PAWS team is gearing up for a busy season full of dog-walking,...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

Deer run home : a novel in verse
LeZotte, Ann Clare
Paper Book
Effie is Deaf, and no one in her family speaks sign language, her language. This moving story of survival and found family, inspired by a true court case and told in verse, is perfect for fans of Wonder and Out of My Mind. * "Quietly extraordinary." --...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

Very bad at math
Larson, Hope
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning author Hope Larson comes a middle grade graphic novel full of hijinks, unexpected friendships, and pizza, perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Kayla Miller. Verity "Very" Nelson can do it all. She's student...

Young Teen Graphic Novel (Grades 5-7)

You're so amazing!
Catchpole, James
Paper Book
A Schneider Family Book Award Honor book! ​In this authentic and humorous picture book, a child with a limb difference is tired of being told how amazing he is for doing normal things. Joe and his friend Simone are practicing their best playground...

Children's Nonfiction (Age 4-8)

Find this list online

https://librarian.syndetics.com/syndeticsunbound/lp/855.1219/list/5601

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.