This book takes more of a conversational, informational take on grief. Unlike other picture books that try and tell grief in a story, this one poses questions and then answers them in a broad, trying to appeal to all beliefs kind of way. A good look at grief as varied and experienced differently by people.

This book is about a fox who does everything with his dog. But then his dog passes away. He feels grumpy and lets his garden become a thing of weeds and ugliness. Then a pumpkin plant sneaks in and he starts to gain back some of his vigor for life and beauty. He is slowly moving forward with life.

A young child has a mother that is sick. As she is dying, a mythical creature carries the strongest parts of her that make her mama. When she dies, the child finds that the creature still carries the strongest parts of mama, keeping her memory alive.

This is the story of a boy who is best friends with his grandpa. Eventually he realizes that his grandpa is getting old and his grandpa reminds him that the memories that they hold will carry them through, even after his grandfather dies.

Walks with a child through the actual process of losing someone. Family gathers around grandma as she is dying.

A story of loss, how who we lose is in everything around us, and eventually we won't miss them as much, but we will internalize their love for us.

About boxing up our grief and how that takes away joy and curiosity, and how young people can help us find our curiosity again.

One boy's story of what grief feels like after losing his dad. Liked this one...good description of all the different feels.

A young girl experiences the sunshine of her father until he suffers from clinical depression. Then they have to work together as a family (and with medical/psychological help) to get back from the blue to the full rainbow of colors.

A child struggles with speaking in front of the class. His dad picks him up on this "bad speech day" and takes him to the river. As they sit in the quiet of nature, his dad tells him that he speaks like the river; the gurgling, bubbling, crashing, stuttering sounds of a beautiful river.

This is the artists take on what the life of James Castle might have been like from the pieces he could put together. This is an artist that was deaf and mute, possibly autistic and dyslexic. It explores the way we treat people who present differently to the world than others.

The story of Louis Braille's life and the invention of Braille writing for the blind.

(book 2--first book is What Happened to You?)
Everyone is always telling him he is amazing, even when he is just doing normal things. Why does he have to be poor Joe or amazing Joe, and not just regular old Joe? Speaks to the experiences of disabled people.

Stan struggles with writing. He doesn't want to ask for help because he doesn't want people to laugh at him. But his letters always come out upside down and backwards, or not at letters at all. He finally asks for help and Miss Catnip spends extra time to help him finally figure it out.

Sonia Sotomayor, who has diabetes, walks through describing several different disabilities or different ways of living and explains it to kids, encouraging their curiosity, while making it okay to live differently or be different.

A young boy is happily playing on the playground when he is asked what happened to his missing leg. He is tired of this question and mad that people have interrupted his play. But the child eventually understands that he doesn't want to be asked or to tell the story, and that is okay; they can still play together.

Henry is looking for a friend. He looks at each child in his class, evaluating if they would be a good friend. So many of the kids in his class don't follow the rules or don't make sense. He finally finds a friend in Katie, a quiet girl, but one willing to listen to his words.

The story in a day in the life of a guide dog (Perry) and his owner (Sarah)

Follows the story of Jessica, an amputee, and Rescue, a service dog in training. **based on the true story of a double amputee following the Boston Marathon bombing.**

The story of how Itzhak came from an immigrant family in Israel to be one of the best violin players in the world, despite polio taking away the use of his legs.

In Ghana a young boy is born with only one good leg. His dad leaves and society tells his mom that this disabled boy won't be able to do anything. But his mom believes in him and has him work to get the things he needs, building strength and resilience. Eventually he decides to ride around Ghana as a way to bring attention to the role of disabled people in Ghana.

Told from the aspect of the author--a little boy has a stutter, and only avoids stuttering when singing or talking to animals. He slowly learns how to control his stutter, but still feels broken from the voices of others in his life. Then he becomes a young man who studies big cats and slowly finds his own voice and his own strength of feeling whole.

Each person has their bunch of balloons--memories that they hold on to. But Grandpa starts loosing his balloons or getting stuck telling the same balloon story over and over again. One day, all of Grandpa's balloons are gone, but his grandson soon realizes that he has new balloons--Grandpa's stories that he now holds in his own balloons, so he shares these "new" balloons with Grandpa.

Milo reads a book about monsters before bed, which was a bad idea. He signals his friend Mel across the yard and signs to her that he doesn't know what to do about the monster under his bed. Together they sign back and forth and make shadow puppets to scare the monster away.

A boy with dyslexia (or reluctant reader problems) struggles to make words make sense even though pictures come easily. Includes the author's personal experience as a note in the back.

Ginny sees two of everything, which makes it hard to read, hard to cut and hard to walk through the classroom, without drawing attention to herself. Then the vision screening alerts the nurse to her double vision and she is sent to the eye doctor. With some exercises, an eye patch and glasses, she will be all ready to read...and the eye patch helps her conquer the world.

Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins has been involved in work for the Americans with Disability Act and protests since she was a little girl. She wasn't allowed to attend school, eat in the cafeteria, and struggled to get around town in her wheelchair. But when she joins the Capital Crawl, she helps the movement gain national attention and Congress finally passes the ADA.

Evelyn has loved music her whole life, but then her hearing starts to go. The audiologist tells her that she will never be able to play music again and that she should go to the school for the deaf. But with her family's support, she attends a school with a wonderful music program and fights her way into playing percussion. There a percussion teacher changes her life with his ability to tap into her other senses.

A young child is surprised at the way the neighbors' hands dance as they talk to each other, not needing their voices. They meet and eventually the young girl teaches the young child sign language so they can better communicate.

A little girl talks about how she doesn't like going out in the cold to new places. But her mother takes her to where they are making ice sculptures. While there, she loses her plastic horse, which is a security item for her. She misses her horse and the comfort it brings. Her mother takes her back during the evening, which feels even worse, except that the sculptures are breathtaking and a little like magic. And then the magic shows her where her horse is. (Immersive...disability is not the focus of the story).