Disability has been written into books throughout history – but why are disabled characters either ‘helpless’ or ‘a hero’, and not just ‘normal?’ Sitting in his wheelchair looking out into the expansive garden which surrounds his home,...
In writing a YA fiction novel about 16-year-old runner, Jessica, whose Olympic dreams are crushed after an amputation below the knee, author Wendelin Van Draanen lifts the lid on the hours of research it takes to capture the authenticity of the hopes and fears of...
