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Rambling around the internet; helping niblings maneuver through college, learn their ABC's and deal with middle school (usually all on the same day); reading to remain alive.

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Horizontal is just the way some of us live

Horizontal Parenting How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down by Michelle Woo

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Guys: I don’t even know how to explain to you how validating this book is.  I’ve been helping raise kids, while also living with chronic debilitating illnesses & disabilities for 27 years now.  Very often, that raising occurs from a horizontal position, out of necessity.  Oh, today we’re have vertigo for no goddamn reason? Great day to play Auntie NTE is the troll under the bridge who won’t let you pass. Oh, goodie, the treatment I had last week that was supposed to only have 1 […]

Feelings are hard; the least we can do is give kids the words to describe them.

Star Wars Search Your Feelings, Galactic Basic Edition by Calliope Class & Caitlin Kennedy

What to Do When You're Feeling Blue by Andi Cann

The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld

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When I taught preschool, we did a lot of lessons on emotions.  I’m not sure there was anything we did over the course of the whole school year that didn’t somehow connect to emotions, since teaching kids how to deal with their own feelings and participate in a community where everybody else also had feelings was our overreaching goal, in the end.  We may have told parents we were teaching their kids the colors of the rainbow, but you best believe there were some lessons […]

2 Misses, and One Five Star Hit

Lulu Faces Loss & Finds Encouragement by Danica Thurber

Forever in Our Hearts by Kristina Andrade

Home in Heaven  by Stefan Waidelich

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I don’t know about all you, my fellow Cannonballers, but I’m the go-to book person in most of my circles. I would be very upset if this were not true, in fact.  Especially when it comes to picture books, which are what I’m both most educated in and most passionate about. But this means, that a lot of times I get asked about “What are good books about X hard thing?” and – while I almost always have a few essential recommendations for every given […]

Much Better, but with a*

My Friend Has Autism by Amanda Doering Tourville

The Children's Guide to Autism by Fiona Reeves

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In direct contrast to my last post, I’m here to discuss two more books that address Autism and Autistic people in much more relatable & respectful terms, and that can definitely go on my resource guide, even though neither of them is brand spanking new, either. First up, the pretty factual The Children’s Guide to Autism, which was published in 2015. It uses very clear language to discuss some of the strengths and weaknesses of Autistic people, and only ventures in to stereotypical portrayals once or twice. […]

Not Everything Makes The List

My Brother Has Autism by Deborah Woo-Ming

Some Kids Have Autism by Martha E.H. Rustad

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So: I’m cycling through a lot of disability rep books this month, since it’s Disability Pride Month and since I am continuing to work on lists of resources for books with/by/for/about disabled people, lives, histories, & characters. I have so many books to investigate, and I’m going through a bunch of them to see if they’re worth adding them as resources, and it’s really important to note that not everything makes the list. Just because a book has disabled main characters does not mean it is […]



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