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Yuko-chan, an adventurous orphan who is blind, is on a mission to help people in a neighboring village when she trips and tumbles down a snowy cliff. While waiting for help, she notices that the gourd containing her tea always rights itself when tipped over (because the tea is frozen on the bottom). Using this idea, she creates the famous Daruma doll, a representation to never give up, no matter the obstacles!

Yuko-chan and the Daruma Doll: The Adventures of a Blind Japanese Girl Who Saves Her Village

Sunny Seki

Age Level:

6-9

Genre:

Fiction, Fairytales, Folk Tales, and Tall Tales, Myths and Legends

Published:

2012

A tactile storybook ideal for children with visual impairments. Come with us to the park! Which way shall we go? What shall we do? What will we find? Containing tactile features, Braille-style numbering, play elements, high-contrast images and a rhythmic rhyming text, this book is designed to create as sensory and involved experience as possible out of a familiar and well-loved journey.

Off to the Park!

Stephen Cheetham

Age Level:

0-3

Genre:

Fiction

Published:

2014

A blind girl sees the beauty of nature with her heart. Nellie loves the ocean. Every year she travels with her family over the Black Mountains to their beach house. And every year her two brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean through the mountain passes. Nellie never competes-until this year. This year, the mountains are blanketed in a heavy mist, and no one can see the ocean-no one except Nellie.

See the Ocean

Estelle Condra

Age Level:

6-9

Genre:

Fiction

Published:

2024

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Yuko-chan and the Daruma Doll: The Adventures of a Blind Japanese Girl Who Saves Her Village

Off to the Park!

See the Ocean

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Yuko-chan and the Daruma Doll: The Adventures of a Blind Japanese Girl Who Saves Her Village

Off to the Park!

See the Ocean

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