Books For Parents & Children

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A list of self-help books for parents or carers of children who stammer, as well as books for children and teenagers.

Are you looking for a book to help support you as a parent or carer? Or are you looking for something to comfort, inspire and empower your child who stammers? Look no further than the list of books below. 

If a title has a link, click the link to read a book review by someone from our volunteer review team, which includes parents and speech & language therapists.

Know of any other books out there about stammering or with stammering characters? Email us at editor@stamma.org and we'll potentially add them to the list.

Books for parents

• Helping Children Cope With Stammering by Jackie Turnbull and Trudy Stewart (Sheldon Press, 1996).
• If Your Child Stutters: a Guide for Parents. Published by the Stuttering Foundation of America, 2013.
• Living and Learning with a Child who Stutters: From a Parent's Point of View by Lise G. Cloutier-Steele (NC Press Toronto, 1995).
• Stammering: Advice for All Ages by Renée Byrne and Louise Wright. An introductory guide for those who stammer and their relatives and friends (Sheldon Press, 2008).
• Stammering in young children: A practical self-help programme for parents by Ann Irwin (Thorsons, 1988).
• Stuttering and Your Child – Questions and Answers. Published by the Stuttering Foundation of America, 2013.

BOOK for CHILDREN OF all ages

• Draw Your Stutter by Daniele Rossi (Self-published, 2025).
• Stammering: Advice for All Ages by Renée Byrne and Louise Wright. An introductory guide for those who stammer and their relatives and friends (Sheldon Press, 2008).
• 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 (Self-published, 2025).

BOOKS for young children

• 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 (Self-published, 2025).
• Do Animals Stammer? by 7-year-old Arthur Minella (Olympia Publishers, 2023).
• Ella's Gift by Adrienne Till (Self-published, 2025).
• Ettie Stutters by Steven Steinfeld (Self-published, 2023).
• Glen the Galloway Goat by Michael Howe (Self-published, 2023).
• I Didn’t Ask For Beans by Jude Robertson (Self-published, 2024).
• 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 (Walker Books, 2021).
• Little Big by 8-year-old Hassan Aly (Self-published, 2019).
• Rainbow Magic: Helen the Sailing Fairy by Daisy Meadows (Orchard Books, 2024).
• The Robin's First Christmas by Susanne T. Schroder (Tilli Publishing, 2019).
• 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 (Self-published, 2025).
• When the Stammer Came to Stay by Maggie O'Farrell (Walker Books, 2024).

Books for primary school children

• The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh by Helen Rutter
• Different Like Us by Margaret Rooke (real-life experiences of children, featuring a chapter about a boy who stammers)
• The FlimFlam Man by Darleen Bailey Beard
• Franky Banky in Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Mirth by Daniele Rossi
• How to be More Hedgehog by Anne-Marie Conway
• The Stuttering Coach by Martin Scott
• Stuttering Monster by John Blosse    

Books for teens/young adults

• Different Like Us by Margaret Rooke. Real-life experiences of children, featuring a chapter about a 15-year-old boy who stammers (2025).
• Do You Stutter? A Guide for Teens. Non-fiction book published by the Stuttering Foundation of America. Edited by Jane Fraser and William Perkins. On paperback & kindle.
• 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).
• Stuttering Monster by John Blosse