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Lucy is a disabled writer – of Mama Car, and (co-author of) You’re So Amazing! See also, The Catchpole Agency.

Owning It Lesson Plan jpgs, Owning It - a thick middle-grade book - in the middle. A4 sheets - lesson plan and slideshow - surround it. Bio photos of some of the authors are just visible.
November 28, 2025November 28, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

Owning It: Our disabled childhoods| A lesson plan – KS2, KS3

Lucy - a white woman with long brown hair - sits in her wheelchair, with both daughters perched on and around her. They're smiling at the camera.
May 11, 2025May 11, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

Mother’s Day – disability, joy and wheelchairs

‘Happy International Wheelchair Day everyone. (Whether you buy my book or not ;-) )
March 1, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

International Wheelchair Day | Disability, joy and defiance

'February literally didn't exist in early Roman calendars'...
February 8, 2025July 1, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

January and February literally didn’t exist?! Makes sense.

A photo of our family, celebrating "You're So Amazing!" receiving a Schneider Family Book Award Honor from the ALA. Text reads: “Our book about disability and NOT being amazing is a Schneider Family Book Award Honor book! We’re in our garden, trees and greenery behind. James and Lucy - a white disabled couple - and their two young daughters wear clothes that vaguely suggest a pirate theme, with hats and bandanas. We’re all sitting, with Lucy in her wheelchair - holding a book our picture book "You're SO Amazing!". Viola - age 6 - has an open-mouthed expression of great joy / surprise - who can tell? Book cover: “You're So Amazing” - the US hardback, a children's picture book with a cream background. On the illustrated cover are three children between 4 and 6yo - an East Asian boy, a white one-legged boy with yellow crutches, and a Black girl. They have a football and look happy.
January 30, 2025January 30, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

An ALA honor for our book about disability and NOT being amazing

Can we talk about Tiny Tim? The caption reads: "Can we talk about Tiny Tim? A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens." Underneath, a 1924 black and white illustration by Harold Copping of Tiny Tim, a young boy from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He is leaning on a crutch, with a serious expression on his face. Over the top, a torn fragment of a page with a quote from the novella: "he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas-day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see."
December 23, 2024December 23, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

On Tiny Tim, disability and A Christmas Carol

Lucy Catchpole with Mama Car in a bookshop. Lucy's in Caper Oxford next to a display of my picture book Mama Car, sitting in my wheelchair, smiling at the camera. I’m wearing my green linen skirt, burnt orange cardigan, embroidered scarf & black beret. Mama Car cover art: a white background, a wheelchair-using mother on the front with a child on her lap, who looks slightly like me - illustrated by Karen George. Text over the top reads "My book in a bookshop!" on paper. It's a bright, cosy bookshop.
October 16, 2024December 2, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

My book in a bookshop! | Mama Car at Caper Oxford

Mama Car lesson plans: A4 pages spread out on a wooden background. On the left: titled 'Learning Resources Key Stage 1, 2 and above' with 5 pages behind it. On the right, titled 'Learning Resources EYFS-Year1 (ages 3-6), with 9 pages behind. Pages are fanned out, contents is not visible. In the centre, picture book Mama Car. Text below reads: 'Mama Car lesson plans'
August 25, 2024November 26, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

Free Mama Car lesson plans | Wheelchairs, disability & joy

Lucy Catchpole with Mama Car, read by her daughters. Text reads: Mama Car is out now! By me - Lucy Catchpole
August 1, 2024December 12, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

Mama Car | The comfort and joy of a mother’s wheelchair | My picture book out today!

Text reads 'Winners at the IBC awards!' Lucy and James - a white disabled couple with their daughters - hold a copy of You're So Amazing and the IBC trophy. The trophy is transparent, making it almost invisible. Lucy is laughing.
July 23, 2024January 22, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

We Won! | You’re So Amazing and the Inclusive Books for Children Award

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