TURTLE BOOKS fill the missing gap in children's literature. Now you have easy-to-read books that honestly talk about what it's like to be a child with a disability. Warm, colorful illustrations and simple, beautiful stories offer insights in dealing with children who have physical and mental disabilities.
Consider our books featuring heroes who have down syndrome:
Cookie | How About a Hug | Me, Haily! | Buddy's Shadow
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Reading these books together help children discuss their feelings, differences and similarities. They realize that there are others like themselves with similar problems and feelings. Reading the stories together provides a bridge of understanding with friends and siblings through the entertaining, non-threatening world of story telling. |
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Does your special child have cerebral palsy? |
| For children with disabilities, Turtle Books present heroes who look like them, have problems like theirs and have similar doubts and feelings. |
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There are seventeen books in the series. Each book tells a story of a young child with physical, mental and language impairment. These include autism, visual impairment and deafness. All books are printed in 18 point type size. The average level is late second grade or early third grade. |
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It's Time | The Night Search | When I Grow Up |
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Turtle Books Bridge the Gap !
From Separated and Isolated to: FULL INCLUSION
At School:
Provide an interesting way to develop a positive attitude by children and teachers in the general classroom. |
For children who will be meeting the child with a disability for the first time, lessons using Turtle Books provide an opportunity to question and become familiar with the disability in a nonthreatening  manner. The emphasis is placed on the similarities of the children, rather than the differences. |
At Home: |
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Help siblings understand the ways in which their new baby is different. Provide an opportunity for siblings to ask questions and express frustration without guilt or criticism.
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Sibling may come to understand the similarities and the differences in a loving, accepting way as they read the stories of children who have problems similar to those their new brother or sister may be expected to have. |
For the Child with the Disability:
For children with special needs, Turtle Books present heroes who look like them, have problems like theirs and have similar doubts and feelings.
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Jason & Nordic Publishers
PO Box 441
Hollidaysburg PA 16648
Phone: (814) 696-2920
Fax: (814) 696-4250
email: turtlbks@jasonandnordic.com
