While my primary focus is adolescent and Young Adult chapter books, I have added information about children's literature from time to time. I encourage you to visit my 100+ and Counting List which includes Juvenile (early chapter books- some with illustrations).This is a new list that I will add titles to as I find them. This is NOT a comprehensive list of children's books with Deaf Characters. I have included books that I consider "contemporary". I usually do not include books that are out-of-print or unavailable.
- Antoinette Abbamonte, Tree Wise (2007)
- Sally Hobart Alexander & Robert Alexander, She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer (2008)
- Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, The Smart Princess and Other Deaf Tales (2006)
- Claire H. Blatchford, Going With the Flow (1998)- deaf author
- Elizabeth Boschini & Rachel Chaikof-deaf author with C.I., Ellie's Ears (2008)- deaf character with C.I.
- Linda Kurtz Kingsley, Signs of Jays (2008)
- Patricia Lakin, Dad and Me in the Morning (1994)
- Laila Laván and Beatriz Iglesias, Lucy: Loud and Clear / Lucía: alto y claro (2007)
- Jeanne M. Lee, Silent Lotus (1994)
- Emily Arnold McCully, My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the Birth of American Sign Language (2008)
- Isaac Millman, Moses Goes To a Concert (1980)
- Isaac Millman, Moses Goes to School (2000)
- Isaac Millman, Moses Goes to the Circus (2003)
- Isaac Millman, Moses Sees a Play (2004)
- Anita Riggio, Secret Signs: Escape Through the Underground Railroad (2002)
- Pete Seeger & Paul Dubois Jacobs, Deaf Musicians (2006)-ALA honored book
- Andrea Stenn Stryer, Kami and the Yaks (2007)
- Myron Uhlberg, Dad, Jackie, and Me (2005)
- Myron Uhlberg, Flying over Brooklyn (1999)
- Myron Uhlberg, The Printer (2003)
- Valentine, Dina the Deaf Dinosaur (1997)
6 comments:
It was great meeting you in Richmond last weekend!
Marielle is almost 2. We already have some of these books for when she's older -- what's a good one for the really young kids?
I think Patricia Lakin's Dad and Me in the Morning would be a nice book because it is about spending time with a parent (a father)so Marielle would have the experience of waking up (maybe not going to a beach) and spending time with a loved one. I also think that Myron Uhlberg's Flying over Brooklyn would be fun in the winter. Although we don't have snowstorms like they do in New York, she would understand the concept of snow and winter... and flying over a city is fun for all of us:)
Another one, just published in the U.S., is _Oranges in No Man's Land_ by Elizabeth Laird. I liked it quite a lot.
Thank you for this list - I want to read some of these books with my hearing daughter.
Wrigleyfield, which characters in Laird's Oranges in No Man's Land are deaf?
Another wonderful picture book for elementary age children is Mandy by Barbara Booth, 1991. The author does a good job of showing hearing children some of the ways in which the deaf experience the world differently.
Ann in Chatham
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