Suggested Reading
for Siblings of Handicapped

I got this list when I asked a social worker for some titles of books for siblings of handicapped kids, but I guess these would be good for the handicapped kids too.

GENERAL BOOKS ABOUT HANDICAPS
Friends by Melva Jackson Edrington
Like Me by Alan Brightman
What If You Couldn't...? A Book About Special Needs by Janet Kamlen
Who Will Take Care Of Me? by Patricia Hermes
The Raft by Alison Morgan
What Do You Do When Your Wheelchair Gets A Flat Tire by D. Biklen & M. Sokoloff
Like It Is: Facts & Feelings About Handicaps From Kids Who Know by Barbara Adams
Winners: Eight Special Young People by Dorothy Siegel
Feeling Free by Mary Beth Sullivan, Alan Brightman & Joseph Blatt
About Handicaps: An Open Family Book For Parents And Children Together by Sara Bonnett Stein
Health, Illness And Disability: A Guide To Books For Children And Young Adults by Pat Azarnoff

AUTISM
The Devil Hole by Eleanor Spence
The October Child by Eleanor Spence
Please Don't Say Hello by Phyllis Gold

BLINDNESS AND VISUAL HANDICAPS
Belonging by Deborah Kent
Listen For The Singing by Jean Little
Being Blind by Rebecca Marcus
Tom and Bear by Richard McPhee
Laurie by Diane Greig and Alan Brightman
Connie's New Eyes by Bernand Wolf
Sally Can't See by Palle Peterson
Spectacles by Ellen Raskin
The Seeing Summer by J. Eyerly

CEREBRAL PALSY
Let The Balloon Go by Ivan Southall
Mine For Keeps by Jean Little
Howie Helps Himself by J. Fassler

DEAFNESS AND HEARING PROBLEMS
Silent Dancer by Bruce Hlibok
Apple Is My Sign by Mary Riskind
The Swing by Emily Hanlon
The Show Of Hands by Mary Beth Sullivan and Linda Bourke
A Button In Her Ear by A. Litchfield
I Have A Sister, My Sister Is Deaf by Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson
Lisa And Her Soundless World by Edna Levine
Claire And Emma by Diana Peter

EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL HANDICAPS
Walkie-Talkie by Phyllis Green
Mad Martin by Patricia Windsor

EPILEPSY
Epilepsy by Alvin and Virginia Silverstein
A Handful of Stars by Barbara Girion
What If They Knew? by Patricia Hermes

LANGUAGE PROBLEMS
Trouble With Explosives by Sally Kelley
I Can't Talk Like You by Althea

PHYSICAL HANDICAPS
Ginny by Alan Brightman and Kim Storey
Hollis by Alan Brightman and Kim Storey
Hackett McGee by Charles Grealish and Mary Jane Grealish
Alesia by Eloise Greenfield and Alesia Revis
Wheelchair Champions by Harriet May Savitz
Sports For The Handicapped by Anne Allen
Run, Don't Walk by Harriet May Savitz
Physical Disabilities by Gilda Berger
Mister O'Brien by Prudence Andrew
Mark's Wheelchair Adventures by Camilla Jessell

SPINA BIFIDA
Janet At School by Paul White

LEARNING DISABILITIES
Keep Stompin' Till The Music Stops by Stella Pevsner
But I'm Ready To Go by Louise Albert
Kelly's Creek by Doris Buchanan Smith
My Brother Barry by Bill Gillham
I Own The Racecourse by Patricia Wrightson

MENTAL RETARDATION
Welcome Home, Jellybean by Marlene Shyer
The Alfred Summer by Jan Slepian
He's My Brother by Joe Lasker
My Brother Steven Is Retarded by Harriet Sobol
A Look At Mental Retardation by Rebecca Anders
Don't Take Teddy by Babbis Friis-Baastad
The Summer Of The Swans by Betsy Byars
A Racecourse for Andy by Patricia Wrightson
Take Wing by Jean Little
Mary Fran and Mo by Maureen Lynch
My Sister by Karen Hirsch
A Special Kind of Sister by Lucia Smith
She's My Sister by Jane Claypool Miner
The Blue Rose by G. Klein
A Place For Everyone by Tana Reiff
Sticks And Stones by Lynn Hall
Between Friends by Sheila Garrigue
It's Too Late For Sorry by Emily Hanlon
Don't Forget Tom by Hanne Larson
A Little Time by Anne Norris Baldwin
The Hayburners by Gene Smith