Reflection about Final Project

Researching books about children with disabilities was very interesting and it taught me a lot about the subject. I first started off by trying to decide what books I was going to buy or rent from the library. I researched online about books focusing on children with disabilities. I found a lot of books on this subject so I figured that I wouldn't have any trouble finding them. When I went to my local library, that is very nice and a library I have never had any trouble finding books at, I could only find one book. This particular book had won a national award for. Next, I went to a bookstore and was disappointed to find that not one book I needed was offered.

Next, I decided to look on a bookstores website for children's books about disabilities. I found many books on their website, but I was disappointed to find that they did not carry any of the books in the store. Instead, I did find two more books to review and those were the ones that I ended up blogging about.

I found it very interesting that so many children have disabilites or they have other children in their classes with disabiblities and information in the form of children's books wasn't readily available to inform these children about how some students are different. If I had such a hard time tracking down these books, it makes me wonder how much effort will parents be willing to go to when they can get an everyday childrens book in the picture book section of the bookstore. I feel like a library is a place where you can go to find a wide variety of books and books that can inform people, so I was shocked when I couldn't find the books that I was looking for.

I have learned from this assignment how important books about disabilities are for children to have available to them. These books can teach students, and adults, so much. Children need to know that people are different and that the differences are okay. Reading these books opened my eyes to how hard it is to find diversity books and what lengths one has to go to to track down this type of text.