#My Three Best Friends and Me Zulay

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Today’s disabled character of the day is Zulay from My Three Best Friends And Me, Zulay, who is blind

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[Image Descriptions: Drawing of a girl walking down an orange running track with an ID cane in her right hand. She is wearing a school uniform made up of a blue jean dress, white blouse, long white socks, and black shoes. She has curly black hair done up in afro buns with pink bead barrettes.]

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Books About Disabilities Disney Plus Should Adapt

Here are 5 books with excellent disability representation that #DisneyPlus should adapt. They have power, they can do a lot of good. 📝 @RealENHolloway $DIS #DisneyPlus #AbleismExists

The following is a guest editorial by Ethan Holloway. Back in 2021, I wrote an article for Dejaview News about Disney’s published books that Disney+ should adapt, so now I am back to write about some books that follow characters with disabilities that Disney needs to adapt like, yesterday. My Three Best Friends And Me, Zulay by Cari Best This book follows Zulay and her three best friends who…

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Disability Picture Books #2

[ID: A poster reading "Disability Picture Books" in black writing in the centre. A small, circular logo is in the top right corner. It is red with an open book in the middle, white leaves around the book, and the word "The Disability Archive" across the bottom. In the lower left corner, cartoonish clipart of children climbing a colourful stack of books. All of this is overlayed onto the disability pride flag. /end]

[ID: The same poster, edited. The writing has been removed and replaced by four book covers, and the images in both corners have been shrunken slightly. The book covers, from top to bottom, are: "Jubilee", "The You Kind of Kind", "The World Needs More Purple People", and "My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay." /end]

[ID: The same poster, with different book covers. The four books, from top to bottom, are: "You Are Loved", "A Day With No Words", "You Are Enough", and "Sam's Super Seats". /end]

[ID: The same poster, with different book covers. The four books, from top to bottom, are: "All Are Welcome", "We Move Together", "Kami and the Yaks", and "Zoom!" /end]

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A collection of picture books featuring disabled characters and/or discussions of disability!

Once again, thank you to @creativiteaa for providing the majority of the list, and thank you to @moonflowero1 for your contribution to!

Book List:

'Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream' by K. T. Johnsons, Illustrated by Anabella Ortiz- Paralysis, Therapy Animal

'The You Kind of Kind' by Nina West, Illustrated by Hayden Evans- Wheelchair User

'The World Needs More Purple People' by Kristen Bell and Benjamin Hart, Illustrated by Daniel Wiseman- Wheelchair User

'My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay' by Cari Best, Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton- Blind

'You Are Loved: A Book About Families' by Margaret O'Hair and Sofia Sanchez, Illustrated by Sofia Cardoso

'You Are Enough: A Book About Inclusion' by Margaret O'Hair and Sofia Sanchez, Illustrated by Sofia Cardoso

'A Day With No Words' by Tiffany Hammond, Illustrated by Kate Cosgrove- Autism, Non-Verbal

'Sam's Super Seats' by Keah Brown, Illustrated by Sharee Miller- Cerebral Palsy

'All Are Welcome' by Alexandra Penfold, Illustrated by Suzanne Kaufman

'Kami and the Yaks' by Andrea Stenn Stryer, Illustrated by Bert Dodson- Deaf

'We Move Together' by Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire, Illustrated by Eduardo Trejos

'Zoom!' by Robert Munsch, Illustrated by Michael Martchenko- Wheelchair User

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[image Description: the book cover for “My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay.” The illustrations shows four young girls in school uniforms. Two are Black, one is Asian, and one is white and blonde. One of the Black girls holds a red and white ball tipped cane. They all look happy. They stand in front of a school. End ID]

Read this earlier! It was pretty good

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'My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay'- Best, Cari

Disability Rep: Blind

Genre: Childrens, Picture Book, Realistic Fiction

Age: Childrens

Setting: USA, A school

Additional Rep: POC SC, Child MC, Black MC

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

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BOOKS THAT WILL TEACH CHILDREN ACCEPTANCE

THE WORLD IS IN NEED OF A LOT MORE TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE. CHILDREN'S BOOKS PLAY A HUGE ROLE IN SHAPING THEIR THOUGHTS. SOME OF THE BOOKS THAT WILL TEACH ACCEPTANCE ARE 'I'M HERE' BY PETER H. REYNOLDS, 'RED' BY MICHAEL HALL, 'MY THREE BEST FRIENDS AND ME, ZULAY' BY CARI BEST, 'SLUG DAYS' BY SARA LEACH, AND 'SUSAN LAUGHS' BY JEANNE WILLIS.

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Accepted Characters 9/17/2022

Garnet from Streets of Rage

Patricia Chalmers (Polly) from Needful Things

Moses from Moses Goes to Concert

Zulay from My Three Best Friends And Me, Zulay

Katariina Lehto from The Witch Door

Rose from The Deaf Musicians

Mewton from Castle Cats

Sydney October Sargent from Camp Here and There

Revvetha Brenatto (Veth) from Critical Role

Sayeon Lee from Hand Jumper

Sneeze Detective Maho from Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE

Comandante Lilium from Gryphoon

Ashton Greymoore from Critical Role

Dancer from Critical Role

Grace Redmond from Bones

Kasai Amane from the Precure series

John Tanner from Driver

Elise from Adventure Time

Luca Paguro from Luca

Marcy Wu from Amphibia

Viktor from Arcane

Kevin from the Saints Row series

Dani from Sirius: Twin Stars

Victor from Reminiscencia

Sara from Reminiscencia

Miyamoto Usagi from Usagi Yojimbo

Katsuichi from Usagi Yojimbo

Nila Ba from Craig of the Creek

Nina from [ blank。]

Arisa Sonoda from Arisa

Father Shijun Cha from Dating With a Tail

Rex from Babe

Karen Lawson from Namesake

J from Closers: Side Blacklambs

Maruo Hyakki from Black Jack

Zephyr from Do You Remember

Ingo from the Pokémon series

Norma Khan from Dead End: Paranormal Park

Shai from Woven

Rina Tennoji from Love Live

Phineas Filch from Ace Attorney

1,241 characters remain