This Is How We Play

This is a beautifully written diverse picture book in terms of the depiction of disabilities as well as the skin tones and ages. It teaches us the ways in which the non-disabled people could respond and mingle with the people with disabilities.

Title: This Is How We Play

Author: Jessica Slice , Caroline Cupp

Illustrator: Kayla Harren

Publisher: Dial Books

It portrays how a disabled family or a group of disabled people engage in different games and entertainments in a park, home, hospital, or any such similar place. There are many such visualizations like, a grandpa cheers a kid wearing a prosthetic leg who is playing basketball, a little kid sits on his mom's lap who is maneuvering a wheelchair in the beachside, a mother laying in a hospital bed plays a board game with her kid, and so on.

The authors say that "Every page is based on the story of a family we interviewed" and indeed, we can feel it when we read this book. Everybody has struggles and challenges in life, but those that disabled people experience might be much more than we can ever envision!

For young readers who are reading about disabilities for the first time ever, this book would certainly be an eye-opener and an awesome starting point of discussion on topics like diversity, inclusion, kindness, compassion, and empathy!

📚 A beautifully inclusive book which educates us how families with members with disabilities go about with their lives and in fact, celebrate and play too!

📚 Impressive illustrations and they show the readers a variety of families, bodies, and disabilities.

📚 Recommended for kids ages 4+

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