Awards

• Winner of IODE Jean Throop Book Award 2025 (Canada)

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9781773066295

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Reviews

"An educational, reassuring take on disability and loss. -- ""Kirkus"""

An educational, reassuring take on disability and loss. * Kirkus Reviews * Written by an accessibility advocate, this story could be used to engage children in discussions surrounding mobility issues. * School Library Journal * This picture book shines a light on inequities in the healthcare system while still being child-friendly and fun. * Book Riot * An empowering book that promotes self advocacy skills and disability justice. * Toronto Star *

"An empowering book that promotes self advocacy skills and disability justice. -- ""Toronto Star"" An educational, reassuring take on disability and loss. -- ""Kirkus"""

Author Information

DOROTHY ELLEN PALMER is a mother of two, an award-winning disabled senior writer, accessibility advocate and retired teacher. She served on the Accessibility Advisory Board of the Festival of Literary Diversity and regularly appears at literary festivals. She won the Helen Henderson Award for disability journalism, and has published three novels and the memoir Falling for Myself. The Scooter Twins is her first children’s book. She lives in Burlington, Ontario, with her mobility scooter, Rosie. MARIA SWEENEY is a Moldovan-born, United States-based freelance illustrator and comic artist. She graduated magna cum laude from Moore College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration. Her educational mini-comic, The Straw Ban, won an Outstanding Submission for the 2019 Locher Memorial Awards. She writes and self-publishes comics relating to her experience of navigating the world with a rare disability.

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