Why me, Mama?

Join Rose the owl as she learns about kindness, friendship and self love in this beautiful children's book about the disability experience. Everyone has something, sometimes you can see it & sometimes you can't.

Rose the wee owl is planning her birthday celebration. Instead of feeling excited though, Rose is worried that her friends will not want to come, because she is different. As Rose and her mother deliver the invitations, Rose discovers that the other animals have something that makes them different, too. How will Rose's party turn out? Will her friends come to the party? Find out in this unique and heartwarming story of compassion and kindness.

Targeted for children ages 3-11, this is the first of a series of books featuring woodland characters with differences that are each inspired by real children with disabilities - this series kids are sure to cherish as they grow, and learn from through empowering, motivating and fun-to-read stories.

Various physical disabilities are individually highlighted in this book including facial paralysis/weakness, inability to abduct the eyes (Duane syndrome), club feet, cleft palate, mild, moderate & severe hypotonia, limb differences, strabismus, Autism, Pierre Robin sequence, Poland syndrome, developmental delay, speech, hearing, vision, feeding and respiratory difficulty. These individual differences can all be found in Moebius syndrome. Kids ages: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9