Books Featuring Blind or Visually Impaired Characters or Topics

Birth to Age Three

Book	Available Formats	Cover Art
Arthur’s Eyes Marc Brown None of Arthur’s friends wear glasses and his classmates tease him! But when he stops wearing them, he gets in all kinds of trouble. Maybe four eyes really are better than two.	Braille and print.
Glasses Ann Gwinn Zawistoski Glasses is a positive book about babies and toddlers wearing glasses. It features vivid photographs of young children playing and having fun, and it has a simple rhyming text that talks about different glasses and how they help you to see. You can also check out the Princesses Wear Glasses book that comes with a pink sparkly cape and felt crown so your child can play along with the story.	Print
I Can’t See, But… I Can Imagine Patricia Wilson Children will ride along with Patty as she listens to her blind grandmother describe how imagination helps her write songs for her five grandchildren. This book is available with an accompanying CD with the entire story in audio PLUS all five songs. You can also purchase the book in print/braille or you can buy the piano book so you can play the songs as well!	Audio, braille, and print.
Jeremy’s Dreidel Ellie Gellman At the dreidel-making workshop, Jeremy’s friends think he’s molding a secret code on his clay dreidel. But he’s really making a special gift for his father, who is blind.	Braile and print.
Lucy’s Picture Nicola Moon Lucy wants to make her grandpa a special picture, but her grandfather is blind, so she decides to make him a picture with twigs, feathers, velvet and sand, so that he can feel it with his fingers.	Print.
Mandy Sue Day Karen Ritz This elegant prose poem, illustrated with realistic watercolor paintings, tells how a blind girl, using her senses of taste, hearing, touch, and smell, enjoys a special day with her horse, Ben.	Print.
Off to the Park! Stephen Cheetham Off to the Park is a unique project that seeks to include all children in the reading experience. Containing tactile features, Braille-style numbering, play elements, high-contrast images and a rhythmic rhyming text, this book is designed to create a sensory experience out of a familiar and well-loved journey.	Print.
Sarah, Misty and Scribbles’ Journey to the House by the Sea Jacqueline Johnson Each of the characters in this book has a different ocular condition: Sarah is missing an eye, Scribbles has scratched eyes, Misty cannot see well despite her eyes appearing healthy and Grandpa and Grandma Monkey wear glasses. The book explains orientation and mobility, each eye condition and offers solutions others can use to help people who have a vision impairment.	Print.
A Sense of Play Dana Rau Joy and Chip wake early for a full day of play. Inside, outside. Riding bikes, reading books. Taking turns, sharing treats. And no day is complete without creating an adventure with their imaginations. Chip is Blind. Joy has sight. Their day is filled with so much more than play. They see the world together. Dana Meachen Rau describes a simple, joyful day between siblings celebrating the senses beyond sight--the sounds, smells, tastes, and textures that make playing together so much fun.	Print
Seven Blind Mice Ed Young One by one, the seven blind mice investigate the strange Something by the pond. And one by one, they come back with a different theory. It’s only when the seventh mouse goes out and explores the whole Something that the mice see the whole truth.	Braille and print.
Ten Ways to Hear Snow Cathy Kamper One winter morning, Lina wakes up to silence. It's the sound of snow -- the kind that looks soft and glows bright in the winter sun. But as she walks to her grandmother's house to help make the family recipe for warak enab, she continues to listen. As Lina walks past snowmen and across icy sidewalks, she discovers ten ways to pay attention to what might have otherwise gone unnoticed. With stunning illustrations by Kenard Pak and thoughtful representation of a modern Arab American family from Cathy Camper, Ten Ways to Hear Snow is a layered exploration of mindfulness, empathy, and what we realize when the world gets quiet.	Print
The Black Book of Colors Menena Cottin This innovative book invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery.	Print.
The Secret Code Dana Meachen Rau Oscar, a blind boy, explains to his classmates that his books are not written in secret code, but in Braille. The Braille alphabet is illustrated so that sighted children can learn to recognize the letters and decipher a note that Oscar sends to a friend.	Print.
The Sound of Colors Jimmy Liao In this breathtaking, evocative book, a young blind girl travels from one subway station to another while her imagination takes her to impossibly wonderful places.	Print.
The View From Under the Pew Diane Winters Johnson This beautifully-illustrated storybook introduces children to the true story of Walter, a guide dog who assists Pastor Diane through her day at the church. Walter helps Pastor Diane minister to others as they visit the sick at the hospital and attend church meetings and potluck suppers.	Print.
White Cane Day Kristin Grender Kristin Grender, a TVI and O&M Instructor in Wisconsin, felt that it was important that everyone know about White Cane Day and what it represents so she wrote a cute picture book for young kids that explains the holiday, the white cane and why we celebrate it.	Print.