Clean It! (Helping Hands)

I like the way the author looks at equal opportunities with the illustrations she uses. These books are robust enough for toddlers to use and well written. They help to make the transition between board books and paper books.

Helping with real tasks is a natural progression from pretend play and is crucial in a child's development. This series of four sturdy card books with simple conversational text and lively illustrations encourage further dialogue between the reader and the child. The books have casual illustrations of disabled characters including a parent using an asthma inhaler and a child with a leg splint (Clean it!), a person in the street with a guide dog and a tactile pavement (Cook it!), and a wheelchair user (Grow it!).This book is in a list of early years picture books that feature disabled characters. The list was produced by UK disability charity Scope's In the Picture campaign, which encourages publishers, illustrators and writers to include disabled children in their books.