Books by Lucy and James Catchpole

Disabled authors, and children’s publishing people

If you’d like to order our books through our links, they’re all on this page – we get a small extra percentage. Blackwell’s is great, with free international delivery.

Covers of: What Happened to You? You're So Amazing! Mama Car, Owning It: Our disabled childhoods, We've Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents, Going Viral.

Mama Car

Mama Car - a jpg of the picture book cover. By Lucy Catchpole, illustrated by Karen George. A mother with white skin and brown hair in a ponytail sits in her yellow wheelchair, cradling her child on her lap.
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About Mama Car

A joyful celebration of a mother’s wheelchair & the cosy comfort it provides for her child. By Lucy Catchpole, illustrated by Karen George.

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What Happened to You?

What Happened to You? The cover of a picture book by James Catchpole, illustrated by Karen George. A one-legged child of 5yo or so stands on a swing, on a plain white book cover. He's white, with blonde hair, his shorts are tailored round his residual limb - he isn't wearing a prosthetic leg. He's winking at the reader. The colour palette is red, light blue, dark yellow and red.
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This funny picture book addresses the questions children often ask, as well as a disabled child’s choice not to answer. A Schneider Family Honor book, written by James Catchpole, illustrated by Karen George.

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You’re So Amazing!

You're SO Amazing! A picture book by James & Lucy Catchpole, illustrated by Karen George. A one-legged child with yellow crutches looks out ruefully at the viewer.
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Inclusive Books for Children award winner & a Schneider Honor book, this humorous sequel to What Happened to You? explores how we respond to disability. Illustrator Karen George, written by James & Lucy Catchpole.

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Owning It

Cover of children’s book ‘Owning It: Our disabled childhoods... in our own words’. In a palette of greens with white and purple, illustrations of leafy patterns and musical notes surround illustrations of disabled children and teens around the title "OWNING IT" - in a bold, orange typeface. They include a Black girl with crutches, a ballet dancer of East Asian heritage with a facial difference, a white boy with dwarfism on a skateboard, a blind girl with a cane, two Iraqi boys - amputees - playing PlayStation. The subtitle "Our disabled childhoods..." is visible under the main title, and "in our own words" in a speech bubble, near a white girl playing wheelchair basketball. Several lines of text at the bottom of the cover include the names of the editors: Jen Campbell, James and Lucy Catchpole, and illustrator Sophie Kamlish. There’s also a quote "Honest, hilarious, heartwarming - Cerrie Burnell".
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About Owning It

22 true stories by disabled authors – an anthology for children 9 plus. Edited by James & Lucy, with Jen Campbell. Illustrated by Sophie Kamlish. Stories by Elle McNicoll, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, Imani Barbarin, Ilya Kaminsky and more… Faber 2025

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We’ve Got This

Cream book cover with WE'VE GOT THIS in multi-coloured block capitals, 'Essays by disabled parents' in smaller capitals between the words. 'Edited by Eliza Hull.'
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“Being a disabled parent is a rebellious act.” An adult non-fiction book for a change. Together, James and Lucy wrote one essay for Eliza Hull’s important book of essays by disabled parents. Read an edited extract in the Observer. Scribe 2023

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Going Viral

Cover of Going Viral, a Big Cat reading book by James Catchpole
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A reading book by James – for age 6 plus. Jack loves football and wants to join park games. If they see a video of his football tricks online, will the other kids let him join? With disabled illustrator Jennifer Latham Robinson. Big Cat 2024

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I first made this page to collect all our affiliate links together – for people actively looking to order our books using them. If that’s not you, or you support local bookshops or use the library, that’s great – please disregard them! Maybe you’ll find the lesson plans or posts useful.

If you are looking to order, we recommend Blackwell’s – international delivery’s included in the price, and you can use them wherever you are in the world. But we also have US and UK Bookshop links, and now Amazon UK (an access need for many). It never gets old when someone uses these links – we see your order, and know you found the book through us. Which is just lovely.

For more about the books, read some of our blog posts

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James & Lucy Catchpole. A white couple with brown hair. Lucy's sitting in her wheelchair, James has one leg and is using crutches. Outdoors, with a leafy, dappled background.

As you’ve probably realised if you’ve got this far, this page is about our books as authors. If you’re looking for books we represent in our children’s literary agency, try The Catchpole Agency. And our individual author bios are at James Catchpole and Lucy Catchpole.

Thanks! Lucy and James

Cover of: What Happened to You? You're So Amazing! Mama Car, Owning It: Our disabled childhoods. Text reads: "Books by Lucy & James Catchpole"

Our picture books are all published by Faber & Faber in the UK, and Little, Brown in the US.