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Looking for something to comfort, inspire and empower a child who stammers? Look no further than our list of books for children and young adults featuring characters who stammer.
Click on the links to read reviews from members of our volunteer review team. This is made up of parents of stammering children and speech & language therapists.
If you know of any other books out there about stammering or with stammering characters, email us at editor@stamma.org and we'll add them to the list.
Books for young children (fiction)
- A Boy and a Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz. A lovely story about a boy who stammers, by an author who stammers, with a positive and affirming message (Clarion Books, 2014)
- Bumpy Speech by Sarah Hervé
- Do Animals Stammer? by Arthur Minella
- Ella's Gift by Adrienne Till
- Ettie Stutters by Steven Steinfeld
- Glen the Galloway Goat by Michael Howe
- I Didn’t Ask For Beans by Jude Robertson
- The Five of Us by Quentin Blake. This book tells the story of a group of children. One of them, Eric, has a stammer, though this is never referred to directly. But he helps decisively when Eddie, the adult who drives their van, becomes ill. (Tate Publishing, 2014)
- Hooray For Aiden by Karen Hollet. The story of a little girl who moves to a new school in a new town. Slowly, with a little help from a teacher, Aidan learns that it's OK to stammer. (Hooray Publishing 2010)
- I Talk Like A River by Jordan Scott
- Little Big by Hassan Aly
- Rainbow Magic: Helen the Sailing Fairy by Daisy Meadows
- The Robin's First Christmas by Susanne T. Schroder
- Steggie's Stammer by Jack Hughes. Steggie, a little female dinosaur who stammers, rescues her friends when they all get lost in the Dark Forest. (Wayland, 2012)
- Stuttering Stan Takes a Stand by Artie Knapp. A squirrel who stammers learns to open up. (Self-published, 2010)
- Sydney's Special Voice by Kelly Nixon
- When the Stammer Came to Stay by Maggie O'Farrell
Books for primary school children (fiction)
- Franky Banky in Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Mirth by Daniele Rossi
- How to be More Hedgehog by Anne-Marie Conway
- The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh by Helen Rutter
- The FlimFlam Man by Darleen Bailey Beard
- The Stuttering Coach by Martin Scott
Books for teens/young adults
- Midget by Tim Bowler. A 15-year-old coming to terms with difficult themes, including stammering. (Oxford University Press, 1994)
- Snow, White by Keith Austin. Fantasy novel for young adults whose lead character, John, aged 13, stammers. (Red Fox, 2014)
Books for all ages (non-fiction)
- Draw Your Stutter by Daniele Rossi
- Stuttering is Cool: A Guide to Stuttering in a Fast-Talking World by Daniele Rossi. Fun comic strip-based self-help book (Mischief, Mayhem and Mirth Publishing, 2013)
- Worth Waiting For colouring book by Ryan Cowley
