The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background is a landscape. It shows a green field, under a blue sky, with trees in the background. In the foreground, a young girl with mid-length brown hair, a short sleeved blue dress and red glasses. She is holding a bouquet of flowers in her hands and smiling with her eyes closed. Text above her head reads:
“Heather Avis” and “Sarah Mensinga” in small blue writing, with a pink flower between them.
The title “Different” in large, colourful caps. Each letter is a different colour, in the order purple, dark green, orange, dark blue, orange and pink, green, dark orange, dark blue, dark orange.
The rest of the title “A Great Thing to Be!” is directly beneath this, in dark blue writing. /end]

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Content Warning:

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Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This joyful rhyming book encourages children to value the “different” in all people, leading the way to a kinder world in which the differences in all of us are celebrated and embraced.

Macy is a girl who’s a lot like you and me, but she’s also quite different, which is a great thing to be. With kindness, grace, and bravery, Macy finds her place in the world, bringing beauty and laughter wherever she goes and leading others to find delight in the unique design of every person.

Children are naturally aware of the differences they encounter at school, in their neighborhood, and in other everyday relationships. They just need to be given tools to understand and appreciate what makes us “different,” permission to ask questions about it, and eyes to see and celebrate it in themselves as well as in those around them.

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Notes:

This book rhymes.

There is a kindle version.

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Archivist Comments:

This book was marked “Christian”, and Avis has written other books with religious focus, so I imagine there may be some references to it in this book. It’s fairly highly rated.

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