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Owning It

Our Disabled Childhoods in Our Own Words

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Pub Date Aug 19 2025 | Archive Date Sep 19 2025


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Description

'Honest, hopeful, hilarious and heartwarming.' – Cerrie Burnell

From birthday parties, to navigating the sports field, to being given random free stuff, to juggling hospital visits alongside social lives . . .

These twenty-two true stories capture the highs and lows, the tears and laughter, the friendships and fallouts of growing up with a disability.

Whether you're disabled yourself, or know someone who is, or want to better understand the experience, this book is a window into the young lives of these disabled writers: their stories, in their own words.

Edited by James Catchpole, Lucy Catchpole and Jen Campbell. 

With contributions from Ali Abbas, Polly Atkin, Imani Barbarin, Jen Campbell, James Catchpole, Christa Couture, Carly Findlay, M. Leona Godin, Eugene Grant, Jan Grue, Matilda Feyisayo Ibini, Ilya Kaminsky, Sora J. Kasuga, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, Elle McNicoll, Daniel Sluman, Nina Tame, Rebekah Taussig, Steven Verdile, Alex Wegman, Ashley Harris Whaley and Kendra Winchester. Illustrated by Sophie Kamlish.

'Honest, hopeful, hilarious and heartwarming.' – Cerrie Burnell

From birthday parties, to navigating the sports field, to being given random free stuff, to juggling hospital visits alongside social...


A Note From the Publisher

If you actively promote children's nonfiction and/or writing by members of the disability community, you are especially encouraged to request this! Also eager to get this into the hands of librarians and educators.

If you actively promote children's nonfiction and/or writing by members of the disability community, you are especially encouraged to request this! Also eager to get this into the hands of...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9780571380022
PRICE $18.95 (USD)
PAGES 368

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