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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.

'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

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!

Photo of the Observer magazine - headline is 'Yes, we're parents' - a very large photo of Lucy and James in their garden takes up almost all of both pages, with a column of print on the right.
March 12, 2023September 25, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

‘I didn’t expect motherhood to legitimise me’ | Us! In the Observer magazine

Text reads 'Disability and charity - it's complicated.' The image is the mid-section of one of those old charity collection boxes - they were all over the UK in the 1980s but come from an earlier era. They're essentially statues of children, this one is a boy with an underarm crutch and a caliper, holding a box marked 'Action for the crippled child' - this is the box you'd put your money in.
November 21, 2022December 7, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

Disability does not equal charity

The Bookseller - Faber signs 'pioneering'picture book from literary agents the Catchpoles
October 17, 2022December 7, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

The Bookseller announces a sequel to What Happened to You? | By us, James (& Lucy!) Catchpole

On the Channel 4 Paralympics trailers, by Lucy Catchpole. Photo: Lucy - a white wheelchair user - holding a ball.
August 26, 2021December 7, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

On the Channel 4 Paralympics trailers – it’s complicated

A mirror selfie. I'm a white woman wearing a brown cotton hair scarf, holding a camera and looking into the lens smiling. The words "disability pride..." are written at the top with a cream torn paper background. The mirror frame is very old and cracked, and is cream, though it looks mysteriously pinkish here.
August 13, 2021August 4, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

On disability pride. What does it mean?

Frida Kahlo: Little People Big Dreams. Disability in picture books - our top 6. Photo: Lucy, a white woman, lies in bed with her small daughter Mainie.
May 18, 2021July 30, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

KidLitCripCrit – Frida Kahlo: Little People, Big Dreams (this one is personal)

NO representation is better than bad representation - Lucy Catchpole. Photo: Lucy Catchpole, a mirror selfie. She's a white woman sitting in her wheelchair.
April 18, 2021September 20, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

No representation is better than bad representation | Lucy Catchpole on disability

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