Jean Little

Jean Little was born in Taiwan in 1932. Her parents were both doctors. Jean grew up in Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto. She was born with a severe eye problem and is severely visually impaired. A special "talking" computer assists her with her writing. She has a retired seeing-eye dog named Ritz and a new one named Pippa, with whom she travels. The author focuses on her experiences from the time she was a child through young adulthood in her autobiography, Little by Little, and continues her story in Stars Come Out Within. The books, which will appeal to children 10 and older, are both humorous and poignant as Jean describes living with a disability and the ridicule she sometimes experienced as a result, as well as her love for the world of reading and books. Jean's books include From Anna, Listen for the Singing, Stand In The Wind, Mama's Going To Buy You a Mockingbird, Hey World, Here I Am!, Look through My Window, Emma's Yucky Brother, The Belonging Place, and Mine For Keeps. Listen for the Singing was the Canada Council Children's Literature Award winner in 1977. Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird was the CLA Book of the Year in 1985.
Jean Little's first book, Mine for Keeps, won the Little, Brown Children's Book Award in 1962 and was republished by Viking Penguin in 1995. It tells the story of Sally Copeland, a 10 year old with cerebral palsy, and her adjustment to being home after spending several years in a special school. You'll find that several of the themes in this book appear in a number of the author's other books: dealing with a handicap and the responses of others, fitting in, and adjusting to new situations and surroundings.
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Books by Jean Little

Dans les yeux d'Anna

Mine for Keeps

From Anna (50th Anniversary Edition)

Le long chemin

A Long Way Home

Harry's Hiccups

Harry's Hiccups Read-Along

Listen for the Singing

Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

Once Upon a Golden Apple

Pippin the Christmas Pig

Hand in Hand

Dear Canada: Exiles from the War

Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

Do Not Open Until Christmas

Dear Canada: All Fall Down

Mama's Going To Buy You a Mockingbird

On a Snowy Night

Cher Journal : Récit de Noël : N° 1 - Un Noël de réconfort

Cher Journal : Récit de Noël : N° 10 - Comme les doigts de la main

Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 10: Like a Stack of Spoons

Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 1: Untangling Christmas

Cher Journal : Mes frères au front

Cher Journal : Si je meurs avant le jour

Cher Journal : Noëls d'antan

Dear Canada: If I Die Before I Wake

Dancing Through the Snow

Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles

Dear Canada: Brothers Far From Home

Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember

From Anna

Wishes

Cher Journal : Terre d'accueil, terre d'espoir

Dear Canada 10th Anniversary Collection (10 Books)

Dear Canada: Orphan at My Door

Baby's First French Christmas

Mine for Keeps

The Sweetest One of All

Stand in the Wind

Cher Journal : Le temps des réjouissances

Lost and Found

Forward, Shakespeare!

Different Dragons

Somebody Elses Summer

Dear Canada Collector's Set #2

Rescue Pup

The Birthday Girl

Le Noël de Pétunia

Dear Canada Collector's Set #1

Birdie for Now

Willow and Twig

What Will the Robin Do Then

I Know An Old Laddie

Stars Come Out Within

Belonging Place

Spring Begins in March

His Banner Over Me

Jenny And The Hannukkah Queen

Jess Was The Brave One

One To Grow On

Little By Little A Memoir

Mamas Going to Buy You a Mockingbird

Hey World, Here I Am!-Revised

Hey World, Here I Am!