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Celebrate and empower kids of all abilities with this four-book bundle Titles Included in the Set: More Than What Eyes See: A book about blindness Maya explains what it’s like to be blind, sometimes feeling left out but celebrating her strengths. With her cane, she navigates the world confidently—creative, curious, and brave. I Spark Like Lightning: A book about epilepsy Jen explains what it’s like to live with seizures—sometimes scary, like a lightning storm. With support from family, friends, and her service dog, she manages her epilepsy and embraces who she is. My Life as an Asthmanaut: A book about asthma Jacob explains what it’s like to live with asthma, describing how attacks feel like floating in space. He uses his inhaler, stays calm, and comes back down to earth. Supported by loved ones, he helps others with asthma too. Uncommonly Curious, Eternally Autistic: A book about autism Elijah, Izzy, and Rio share what it’s like to be autistic, including special interests, sensory experiences, and how they communicate. They learn, play, and celebrate their unique strengths together. The Disability Books for Kids series explores visible and invisible disability in the first person, as seen through the eyes of children and written from lived experience. This series builds allyship, challenges ableism, and celebrates difference, empowering and educating all readers. Each book includes an author’s note to the reader, centering disabled voices and ensuring authentic representation.

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Miso Kwak was born in South Korea and has been blind since birth. Miso and her family came to the United States when Miso was in middle school. She hopes that all disabled children can grow up feeling loved and confident in who they are, so she is pursuing a Ph.D. in special education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. When she is not reading or writing, Miso enjoys watching cooking shows, listening to and playing music, and spending time with her friends. Rasha Hamid has been a special education educator for over 20 years, working in the New York City neighborhoods of East Harlem, Hamilton Heights, and Brooklyn, and in Khartoum, Sudan. Rasha considers herself an educator-activist: someone who works to make the world more just, joyful, equitable, and sustainable through the education of students and teachers. She began creating picture books with her classes to fill the need for books reflecting her students, their experiences, and their passions. In addition to Uncommonly Curious, Eternally Autistic, Rasha is the author of Kadisa كديسة, How to Bird, and Hello, Beech Tree!. Rasha is proud to be the AuDHD (autistic + ADHD) mom of an AuDHD young adult. Autism and observing the natural world are two of Rasha's special interests. She attended New York City public schools before earning a bachelor's degree in Africana Studies and Education at Vassar College, and a master's degree in Special Education at Bank Street College of Education. Jake Lockett writes books and stories for children, including My Life as an Asthmanaut. His short stories for young readers have appeared in Smarty Pants Kids, Skipping Stones, and Spider. Jake enjoys learning about space, exploring nature, building Lego sets, and watching movies on his home theater projector. He resides in the forested Allegheny Mountains, where the night skies are clear and blanketed with countless stars! Jenna Elyse Johnson has been a storyteller ever since elementary school, when her teachers told her she could be a writer. Jenna now writes stories for children that are informed by her life, which sometimes include tales about her service dog, Hamilton, or about her mischievous twin brother. As a disabled author, Jenna's passion is to write about disability joy and to help disabled children feel seen on the page. When not writing, Jenna enjoys teaching enrichment classes for homeschooled kids, doing school visits with her service dog, working at her local independent bookstore, exploring the beach, getting lost in a good book, and discovering new gluten-free and dairy-free recipes. Jenna lives in Folsom, California. Adriana Predoi grew up in Romania, where she studied mural art in high school and went on to earn her BA in fine art. After graduating, she started working as a freelance illustrator, and she now focuses on children's illustration. Adriana works mainly digitally, and her style is whimsical, with a touch of magic. She draws inspiration from plants, nature, and best of all, books. In her free time, she loves reading fiction, writing stories for children, and dreaming of publishing her own picture book.

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