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Highlights
- Ontario Library Association Best Bets 2021 List.Winner of the International Latino Book Awards' Best Educational Children's Picture Book in English.A fun and inclusive picture book with mixed-ability characters!A bold and colorful exploration of all the ways that people navigate through the spaces around them and a celebration of the relationships we build along the way.
- 6-9 Years
- 9.2" x 9.8" Paperback
- 44 Pages
- Juvenile Nonfiction, Health & Daily Living
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Book Synopsis
Ontario Library Association Best Bets 2021 List.
Winner of the International Latino Book Awards' Best Educational Children's Picture Book in English.
A fun and inclusive picture book with mixed-ability characters!
A bold and colorful exploration of all the ways that people navigate through the spaces around them and a celebration of the relationships we build along the way. We Move Together follows a mixed-ability group of kids as they creatively negotiate everyday barriers and find joy and connection in disability culture and community. A perfect tool for families, schools, and libraries to facilitate conversations about disability, accessibility, social justice, and community building. Includes a kid-friendly glossary (for ages 6-9).
About the Author
Kelly Fritsch is a disabled writer, educator, and parent living in Ottawa. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University and co-editor of Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalism (2015, AK Press).
Anne McGuire is an assistant professor in the Equity Studies program at the University of Toronto, where she teaches courses on disability justice and disabled childhoods. She is the author of War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence (2016, University of Michigan Press).
Eduardo Trejos is a Costa Rican multidisciplinary artist. A lover of color, insatiable reader, and parent of two boys, he currently lives in Toronto where he works as a graphic designer.