To Table of Contents anything . . . I don ' t see people with dwarfism represented .
In all of the books I had as a child , there were characters from different ethnicities and races , some characters with glasses , different hair colours , wheelchairs etc , but never one with dwarfism . As a child who was the only one in my family with dwarfism , that ' s something that has an affect , and as a performer / dancer , it made me really question if dance was a path for me . Did people with dwarfism belong on a stage just as themselves ? No costumes or mythical powers ? It took me a really long time to overcome that - and to realise that the answer was yes , we do - and that ' s something that I really strive to make a difference in , it ' s one of the reasons I wrote my book , but also - it ' s the reason I put so much into my blog and my social media accounts - now venturing onto TikTok and YouTube and visual platforms to share my journey , because there is more to our life than the media puts out there and people with dwarfism can and should have a platform to showcase what they want to do , without needing to try and ' be ' a character other than themselves .
Her reasons for writing the book
My book , Mummy , There ' s a New Girl was published just over three months ago . It is a book that highlights diversity and that it ' s ok to be different . When a new girl joins the class , many of the children pick on her for her looks , but one brave little boy looks past her differences and learns that really - size is no big deal !
This is the book I wish I had as a child and even though , really , I ' ve only been in the process of publication for about 9 months prior to it ' s release , this started for me when I was sixteen . Studying childcare at college , I worked in so many settings over my years in training and was very fortunate to work with so many children and families in that time , but not once did I ever have a resource that helped me to educate children on why even though I was an adult responsible for caring for them , some of them were still taller than me . I needed something and It didn ' t exist , so I wrote it myself and used it for five years as a learning tool , just on a PowerPoint presentation , and it wasn ' t until 2020 , through my own development and experiences did I begin to think that maybe , this could be something that could help others . It ' s now published and it gives me great pride because there will never be a day again where a resource doesn ' t exist . There will always be a book available now for children to relate to , for someone to see someone who looks ' just like me '.
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