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Inspirational Books
Need a little reflection, affirmation, encouragement or support? These books provide much-need inspiration to parents dealing with their children's special needs.
Reviews: Books Offering Inspiration and Humor
Browse reviews of parenting books offering inspiration and humor from the Harried Parent's Book Club.
Personal Reflections on Parenting Children with Special Needs
Ten books that offer facts, reflections, and memoirs to inspire parents of children with special needs.
Book Review: A Different Dream for My Child
Review of a collection of "meditations for parents critically or chronically ill children."
Book Review: A Smile as Big as the Moon
Review of a book about a special education teacher who breaks rules and fights the good fight to get his class into NASA Space Camp.
Book Review: Building a Joyful Life With Your Child Who Has Special Needs
A self-help book for special-needs parents, "Building a Joyful Life" can help you reframe the negative experiences that come with dealing with your child's disability, and reconnect with your child in a more positive way.
Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Soul - Children With Special Needs
A review of a book of inspirational stories about children with disabilities and the families who love them.
Book Review: For the Love of Rachel
A father shares the saga of his daughter, born at 23 weeks, weighing only 18 ounces. Her fight for survival, and her family's later adoption from China, form the basis for this slight but moving memoir.
Book Review: I Am Potential
Review of an inspirational book by Patrick Henry Hughes, the blind musician and marching-band member featured on "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."
Book Review: Making Lemonade
A guide for parents in finding a way to deal with their children's challenges.
Book Review: Reflections from a Different Journey
In a series of short essays, adults with disabilities share the decisions their parents made for them, and how things might have been different -- for better or worse.
Book Review: The Elephant in the Playroom
Parents of children with special needs write about their "extraordinary highs and heartbreaking lows" in this collection of heartfelt essays.
Book Review: The Power of the Powerless
Oliver was in a vegetative state from birth, unable to see, hear, move or interact. Yet he inspired all who knew or heard of him to an increased appreciation of the value of all life. This is his brother's story of Oliver's life, and all the lives he touched.
Book Review: Waiting for Gabriel - A Story of Cherishing a Baby's Brief Life
In a moving memoir, Amy Kuebelbeck shares the story of her son, Gabriel, who died shortly after birth of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS).
Books with Heart
On Valentine's Day or any day you have love on the brain, check these reviews of special-needs books with "love" or "heart" in the title.