A librarian recommends 5 fun fiction books for kids and teens featuring disabled characters
By Rebecca Weber
Disability representation is slowly increasing in books geared toward children and teens .
In 2019 the Cooperative Children ’ s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin- Madison – a library that allows teachers , librarians and researchers to view books before deciding which ones to buy – found that only 3.4 % of books it received from publishers included a character with a disability .
The CCBC website recently added a diversity statistics book search with categories for physical , cognitive and psychiatric disabilities or conditions . In 2022 , the center received 165 books that included a character with a disability , up from 126 in 2019 .
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