Meet twenty inspiring kids and adults living with disability today.
Stefan Daniel is a Paralympian who began competing when he was 16 and won Canada's first paratriathlon medal in 2016. Zamaan Jivraj, aka The Granola Kid, launched an online granola company and doesn't let his diagnosis of Down syndrome define him. Stella Bartlett is a teen singer and performer from CBC's Ukulele U, where she was the only performer on the show with a disability.
From journalists to NASA scientists to TikTok stars and kidpreneurs, young readers will be introduced to people who were born with a disability and others who became disabled because of illness or an accident. All About Us explores the basic categories of disability: intellectual, sensory, physical and invisible. Readers will discover how every disability, whether it's deafness, blindness or neurodiversity, has its own unique set of adaptations to help manage the tasks of daily life. No two blind people, intellectually challenged people or people who use wheelchairs are the same.
The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
• This collection of biographies introduces middle-grade readers to a diverse range of inspiring kids and adults from around the world living with disability today, including a Paralympian, a NASA scientist and a TikTok star.
• It addresses themes including diversity, equity, otherness and acceptance and it equips young readers with key terms and practical lists of dos and don'ts from the disability community.
• It's timely as young readers, teachers and parents are looking for ways to discuss inclusion and accessibility. Kids living with disabilities will see themselves reflected in these real-life stories.
• Extra content features include FIVE Comments NOT to Make to Someone with a Learning or Intellectual Disability and FOUR Things to Know About a Wheelchair, as well as sidebars that define terms such as MS, explain what an ocularist does and introduces facts such as how it's legal for a blind person to own a car, but they are not permitted to drive it.
• Both the print and ebook version of this book were born accessible and include enhanced features (including larger, accessible fonts, increased indenting, high color contrast and accessible color palettes) to increases reading accessibility.
• The author lives with vision loss and has been immersed in the culture of disability and advocacy. She interviewed each person profiled in All About Us. This is her second book on disability.
This illustrated nonfiction book for middle-grade readers features profiles of twenty kids and adults who live with disabilities.
Hannalora Leavitt lives on Vancouver Island on Canada's west coast. She has a master's degree in writing from the University of Victoria. All About Us is her second book about people with disabilities and the different worlds in which they live. She knows and understands difference because she too has a disability. Hannalora has been legally blind since the age of eleven due to a cancerous brain tumor that permanently damaged her optic nerves. She uses braille and a talking computer to write her stories. Her standard poodle guide dog, Ogden, keeps her company while she works.
Stef Wong is an illustrator and surface pattern designer. Through her portraits, she enjoys highlighting those who have overcome adversity and adding fun and whimsy to products with her patterns. Her work is bold, colorful and vibrant. She lives with her husband, son and daughter in Vancouver. "All About Us is such a joyful, honest celebration of the lives of people with disabilities. These twenty stories shine with personality, humor and resilience. It shows the many ways people move through the world with a few extra barriers and a whole lot of brilliance. It's a refreshing, real look at disability that centers around lived experience and empowers young readers to see disability as a natural part of our human comm
