If you're a parent who has a strong desire to educate not only yourself, but your children better, then keep reading.
Sometimes it can be difficult to have necessary conversations with your kids at an early stage, especially when it concerns important but sensitive subjects.
While there are a whole host of petitions to diversify the syllabus in schools, to include books that focus on disabilities and anti-racism, there's nothing stopping you getting the ball rolling at home first.
Parents are looking at their children’s bookshelves and realising they need to do more to make sure the images and stories they see growing up are diverse. That's why we've complied this helpful list of books that features issues like deafness, blindness, Tourette Syndrome, Asperger Syndrome and more.
Take a look through the books below that cater to kids of all ages.
13 Books To Buy Your Child If Youu2019re Trying Teach Them About Different Disabilities
1 of 13Mermaid by Cerrie Burnell, £2.93
Sylvia is a girl who is both an excellent swimmer and a wheelchair user. But is she really a mermaid?
2 of 13Susan Laughs by Jeanne Willis, £5.85
A sibling and his disabled sister take part in everyday activities. It is useful for starting to talk about disability with a young sibling.
3 of 13Moses Goes To A Concert by Isaac Millman, £6.96
Written English and in ASL, Moses and his school friends are deaf, and like most children, they have a lot to say. (And you can learn too! At the end of the book are two full conversations in sign language and a page showing the hand alphabet.)
4 of 13Run! by Carol Thompson, £4.99
Share and explore the struggles, achievements and sheer delight of children learning to manage and explore early movement challenges, which includes a child with Down Syndrome.
5 of 13Wonder by R J Palacio, £6.30
August is a ten-year-old boy who has been born with a facial abnormality. He is a normal child who eats ice cream and plays on his xbox, but his abnormality drives other children away.
6 of 13In a Minute by Tony Bradman, £6.64
Jo is eager to get to the playground in the park with her friend Sita and Patch the dog. A fun, colourful story about playing that includes a child in a wheelchair in the playground playing with a ball.
7 of 13I Have No Secrets by Penny Joelson, £6.55
Jemma knows who committed the murder, but fourteen-year-old Jemma has severe cerebral palsy. Unable to communicate or move, she is powerless to do anything. Though that might be about to change...
8 of 13Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry, £11.99
Calliope June has Tourette syndrome. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realise she's different.
9 of 13The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, £7.15
Christopher is 15 and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. When he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
10 of 13The Patch by Justina Chen Headley, £6.36
Becca has amblyopia and needs to wear both glasses and an eye patch to strengthen her eye. When her school friends want to know why, she concocts a whole series of funny and imaginative explanations, such as a pirate-princess.
11 of 13She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick, from £2.99
Laureth's father is a writer. One day she receives a mysterious email informing her that his notebook has been found in New York. Laureth decides to travel to New York to investigate only she is blind, and must also take her little brother on the trip to uncover the truth.
12 of 13Cyborg Cat and the Night Spider by Ade Adepitan, £5.39
After seeing the Night Spider's art, Ade starts to feel weak and everything begins to go wrong. He's banned from a school trip to a safari park because of his disability, and the doctors have some bad news about his legs. How can Ade overcome his challenges and what power does the mysterious Night Spider have over Cyborg Cat? Ade needs all his friends' help to uncover the truth.
13 of 13The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, £5.72
When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. She is horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years.