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Your Treasure Hunt: Disabilities And Finding Your Gold
by Katherine Schneider, PhD
Beaver's Pond Press, 2010. Hardcover, 28 pages, $18.95
Being a child with a disability is often hard, but, thanks to Katherine Schneider, it just got a little easier. In Your Treasure Hunt: Disabilities And Finding Your Gold, clinical psychologist Schneider has written an empowering book for disabled pre-schoolers and young readers.
Drawing upon her professional expertise and personal experience of blindness, the author helps children explore the negative and positive realities of disability. Whether addressing challenges such as teasing or needing more time to complete tasks or focusing on ways children can build positive self-images and set goals for their futures, Schneider enlightens and encourages her readers through age-appropriate themes and prose.
Growing up as a child with multiple disabilities in the 1950s, I never came across a book like this one. As a book reviewer and in my two professions of library science and occupational therapy, I didn't discover any book similar to Schneider's that worked as well. She has done disabled children and their families a great service. Your Treasure Hunt is a book that belongs in all school and public libraries and on the shelves of any health care professional treating this population. Most importantly, however, Schneider's life-affirming book should be read by all families with a child who has a disability.
-Reviewed by Sally Rosenthal

About the reviewer: A former college librarian and occupational therapist, Sally Rosenthal shares her home with her polio survivor husband, their respective guide and service dogs, and the family cat who thought life was better without the dogs.