Crossing boundaries… Books about people with special needs
They are not like everyone else, they are special. To understand this, they need to become more confident, and others need to be able to consider, hear, accept and support, thus filling the gap between us.
Each book that will be discussed in this collection is an attempt to fill this gap at least a little and to form an adequate relationship with people with special needs. Each makes you think about serious issues. And at the same time, each is just a good read for children and adults.
Jimmy Liao. "Sound of color" :
A touching story about a blind girl. Her imagination paints in front of her an unusually bright world, full of colors, sounds and smells. Sitting in a subway car, climbing an escalator, standing on a platform, she listens to the sounds and imagines amazing places where she could be.
This is a book that you can not only look at for hours, meditate on every page, look into the labyrinths of images created by the artist, you can not only read in short, simple, but poetic and deep lines. It makes you think, stop, look around with wide open eyes… You
can buy here
Irina Zartayskaya. "I hear" :
The book "I Hear" is a story about the acquaintance of two boys, one of whom is deaf. A simple conversation between two guys gradually reveals the secret of simple happiness: the happiness of hearing. Hear the sound of rain, the rustle of grass and sand, the crash of waves, even the quarrel of neighbors behind the wall! A world filled with sounds for one person turns out to be completely different - full of silence - for another.
You can buy here
RJ Palacio. "Miracle":
August Pullman came to the fifth grade of Beecher School. He is brand new, so it will not be easy for him. And if you take into account that he has never studied at school before, it is doubly difficult. And yet a new school is always new friends. But there are not so many people who want to be friends with Augustus: after all, this quite ordinary ten-year-old boy has a completely unusual face. Due to the complex complex of congenital anomalies, it looks more like a scary mask; and the fact that Augustus lives at all is a real medical miracle. What he will face at school seems to be guessed by any of us: children are cruel. But what will end his first school year, you can find out only by reading this book, full of love, pain and laughter - as well as life itself.
You can buy here
our tireless ark. Experience of overcoming adversity:
This book was written by my parents. They told about their unique children, about families that were cut down at the beginning of their journey by the difficulties that befell them, but gradually revived due to the fact that "special" children taught them to rejoice every day.
No story is like another, but they are all about how love, patience, acceptance of such children and kindness to the world help to overcome adversity.
Download here
Ivan Southall. "Let the ball fly":
The story "Let the Ball Fly", which has long been a classic of English literature, tells the story of one day in the life of twelve-year-old John, who suffers from cerebral palsy. One day his parents leave him alone for almost the whole day. John decides to take the opportunity to prove to himself and others that he is no different from his peers.
Download here
Birta Müllerm. Willie Planet:
Willie is a boy from another planet. He does not yet know how to speak, and it is unknown whether he will ever learn to read and write, but for mom and dad he is the most native and beloved son with a cosmic number of virtues. Willie has Down syndrome. He does not behave like everyone else, and therefore it is more difficult for him than others to communicate.
This book, written and drawn by Willie’s mother, artist Birta Mueller, will help us learn to understand and accept Willie and other aliens as they are.
Buy here
Cher Ron Draper. "Hello, let’s talk":
Melody has a photographic memory. She remembers everything she saw and heard in the eleven years of her life, and words and sounds have a taste and color for her. She is the smartest at school. But no one knows about it. Teachers think that the girl is not amenable to learning, and from lesson to lesson they repeat the first letters of the alphabet with her. It would seem that it is much easier to explain to others how much you know, what you love, what you want. But try to explain if the body does not listen to you at all and simple human speech seems an inaccessible luxury… And yet the day will soon come when Melody will have the opportunity to say the first words in her life. Will they hear her?
Download here
Andreas Steinhefel. " Rico, Oscar and the Darker Shadows Darker":
Rico is not an ordinary child, many basic things are given to him with great difficulty. "Unusually gifted," his loving mother calls him. "Asshole," says the evil neighbor on top. Few people want to be friends with Rico, but one day he was lucky - he met Oscar (also not quite an ordinary boy - a prodigy who, just in case, never takes off his blue motorcycle helmet). And for the sake of his new friend, Rico sets out to unravel the case, which has been baffling the entire Berlin police force for six months.
Download here
Miguel Gayardo. "Maria and I":
An autobiographical cartoon about the vacation of a twelve-year-old girl Maria and her father. It recreates domestic cases faced by hundreds of families with autistic children. But, in fact, it is a whole adventure, where we have to overcome the difficulties because the world around us is ill-adapted for people like Maria, and not everyone she meets on her way is ready to understand her. In 2008, this work was awarded the National Prize of the Government of Catalonia, and in 2010 a full-length documentary of the same name was made based on the book.
Buy here
Rebecca Elliott. "Just because":
A touching story about a sick girl, told by her little brother, will not leave anyone indifferent. After all, a person is endowed with a unique ability to love the world around them and other people. Love relieves fear, suffering and pain. It fills life with meaning and happiness.
Buy here
Nikolai Nazarkin. "Emerald Fish: Chamber Stories":
"Emerald Fish" conquers with amazing "childish" language, sincerity and "authenticity". Nikolai Nazarkin himself was once a small patient and shows the life of the hospital from the inside. But do not think that the book will be one whining and boredom - the ability to be friends and enjoy life with the heroes of the "ward" stories can only be learned!
Download here
Bobby Jean-Dominic. "Space suit and butterfly":
Jean-Dominique Bobby is the author of this confession. "Space suit and butterfly" is his message to the world. Only one eye moves in his body, which is frozen forever. He blinks that eye: once to say yes, twice to say no. Thus, words, phrases, and whole pages emerge from the lashes of the alphabet marked by the sweep of the eyelashes. He sends us his postcards - messages from a world in which there is nothing left but the spirit and mind of the creator at work.
Buy here
Oksana Radushinskaya. "Butterflies in ice shells":
Oksana Radushinskaya’s story about a teenage girl chained to a wheelchair after a car accident that killed her parents. after a car accident that killed her parents. Will the heroine be able to find real friends and even first love? Will he be able to open up to the world in armor for fear of human misunderstanding, whispering behind his back? Will he be able to prove to everyone around him and first of all to himself that the most important thing is human dignity?
Buy here
Andrei Bachinsky. "140 decibels of silence":
In a car accident, a young musician Sergei loses not only his parents, sister, but also hearing. He must learn to communicate in a new way with his peers in the boarding school, to overcome depression and despair, so that the heavy loss does not completely kill his desire to live. And also - to break out of the criminal circle and save the named sister from trouble ...
Buy here
Author Ulyana Lysak
Read also - 10 cartoons about special people
Each book that will be discussed in this collection is an attempt to fill this gap at least a little and to form an adequate relationship with people with special needs. Each makes you think about serious issues. And at the same time, each is just a good read for children and adults.
Jimmy Liao. "Sound of color" :
A touching story about a blind girl. Her imagination paints in front of her an unusually bright world, full of colors, sounds and smells. Sitting in a subway car, climbing an escalator, standing on a platform, she listens to the sounds and imagines amazing places where she could be.
This is a book that you can not only look at for hours, meditate on every page, look into the labyrinths of images created by the artist, you can not only read in short, simple, but poetic and deep lines. It makes you think, stop, look around with wide open eyes… You
can buy here Irina Zartayskaya. "I hear" :
The book "I Hear" is a story about the acquaintance of two boys, one of whom is deaf. A simple conversation between two guys gradually reveals the secret of simple happiness: the happiness of hearing. Hear the sound of rain, the rustle of grass and sand, the crash of waves, even the quarrel of neighbors behind the wall! A world filled with sounds for one person turns out to be completely different - full of silence - for another.
You can buy here RJ Palacio. "Miracle":
August Pullman came to the fifth grade of Beecher School. He is brand new, so it will not be easy for him. And if you take into account that he has never studied at school before, it is doubly difficult. And yet a new school is always new friends. But there are not so many people who want to be friends with Augustus: after all, this quite ordinary ten-year-old boy has a completely unusual face. Due to the complex complex of congenital anomalies, it looks more like a scary mask; and the fact that Augustus lives at all is a real medical miracle. What he will face at school seems to be guessed by any of us: children are cruel. But what will end his first school year, you can find out only by reading this book, full of love, pain and laughter - as well as life itself.
You can buy here our tireless ark. Experience of overcoming adversity:
This book was written by my parents. They told about their unique children, about families that were cut down at the beginning of their journey by the difficulties that befell them, but gradually revived due to the fact that "special" children taught them to rejoice every day.
No story is like another, but they are all about how love, patience, acceptance of such children and kindness to the world help to overcome adversity.
Download here Ivan Southall. "Let the ball fly":
The story "Let the Ball Fly", which has long been a classic of English literature, tells the story of one day in the life of twelve-year-old John, who suffers from cerebral palsy. One day his parents leave him alone for almost the whole day. John decides to take the opportunity to prove to himself and others that he is no different from his peers.
Download here Birta Müllerm. Willie Planet:
Willie is a boy from another planet. He does not yet know how to speak, and it is unknown whether he will ever learn to read and write, but for mom and dad he is the most native and beloved son with a cosmic number of virtues. Willie has Down syndrome. He does not behave like everyone else, and therefore it is more difficult for him than others to communicate.
This book, written and drawn by Willie’s mother, artist Birta Mueller, will help us learn to understand and accept Willie and other aliens as they are.
Buy here Cher Ron Draper. "Hello, let’s talk":
Melody has a photographic memory. She remembers everything she saw and heard in the eleven years of her life, and words and sounds have a taste and color for her. She is the smartest at school. But no one knows about it. Teachers think that the girl is not amenable to learning, and from lesson to lesson they repeat the first letters of the alphabet with her. It would seem that it is much easier to explain to others how much you know, what you love, what you want. But try to explain if the body does not listen to you at all and simple human speech seems an inaccessible luxury… And yet the day will soon come when Melody will have the opportunity to say the first words in her life. Will they hear her?
Download here Andreas Steinhefel. " Rico, Oscar and the Darker Shadows Darker":
Rico is not an ordinary child, many basic things are given to him with great difficulty. "Unusually gifted," his loving mother calls him. "Asshole," says the evil neighbor on top. Few people want to be friends with Rico, but one day he was lucky - he met Oscar (also not quite an ordinary boy - a prodigy who, just in case, never takes off his blue motorcycle helmet). And for the sake of his new friend, Rico sets out to unravel the case, which has been baffling the entire Berlin police force for six months.
Download here Miguel Gayardo. "Maria and I":
An autobiographical cartoon about the vacation of a twelve-year-old girl Maria and her father. It recreates domestic cases faced by hundreds of families with autistic children. But, in fact, it is a whole adventure, where we have to overcome the difficulties because the world around us is ill-adapted for people like Maria, and not everyone she meets on her way is ready to understand her. In 2008, this work was awarded the National Prize of the Government of Catalonia, and in 2010 a full-length documentary of the same name was made based on the book.
Buy here Rebecca Elliott. "Just because":
A touching story about a sick girl, told by her little brother, will not leave anyone indifferent. After all, a person is endowed with a unique ability to love the world around them and other people. Love relieves fear, suffering and pain. It fills life with meaning and happiness.
Buy here Nikolai Nazarkin. "Emerald Fish: Chamber Stories":
"Emerald Fish" conquers with amazing "childish" language, sincerity and "authenticity". Nikolai Nazarkin himself was once a small patient and shows the life of the hospital from the inside. But do not think that the book will be one whining and boredom - the ability to be friends and enjoy life with the heroes of the "ward" stories can only be learned!
Download here Bobby Jean-Dominic. "Space suit and butterfly":
Jean-Dominique Bobby is the author of this confession. "Space suit and butterfly" is his message to the world. Only one eye moves in his body, which is frozen forever. He blinks that eye: once to say yes, twice to say no. Thus, words, phrases, and whole pages emerge from the lashes of the alphabet marked by the sweep of the eyelashes. He sends us his postcards - messages from a world in which there is nothing left but the spirit and mind of the creator at work.
Buy here Oksana Radushinskaya. "Butterflies in ice shells":
Oksana Radushinskaya’s story about a teenage girl chained to a wheelchair after a car accident that killed her parents. after a car accident that killed her parents. Will the heroine be able to find real friends and even first love? Will he be able to open up to the world in armor for fear of human misunderstanding, whispering behind his back? Will he be able to prove to everyone around him and first of all to himself that the most important thing is human dignity?
Buy here Andrei Bachinsky. "140 decibels of silence":
In a car accident, a young musician Sergei loses not only his parents, sister, but also hearing. He must learn to communicate in a new way with his peers in the boarding school, to overcome depression and despair, so that the heavy loss does not completely kill his desire to live. And also - to break out of the criminal circle and save the named sister from trouble ...
Buy here Author Ulyana Lysak
Read also - 10 cartoons about special people