Books For Parents & Children

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A list of self-help books on the market 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 of a child who stammers? Or are you looking for something to comfort, inspire and empower your child? Here's a list of what's out there. Search online to buy them or see if your library has them.

If a title has a link, click it to read a review written by a volunteer from our review team. This is made up of parents and speech & language therapists.

Do you know of a book that isn't on the list? Email us at editor@stamma.org and we'll check it out.

Books for parents

• Helping Children Cope With Stammering by Jackie Turnbull & 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 & Louise Wright. An introductory guide for those who stammer and their relatives and friends (Sheldon Press, 2008).
• 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. Activity-based book (self-published, 2025).
• Stammering: Advice for All Ages by Renée Byrne & 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 & Mirth Publishing, 2013)
• Worth Waiting For by Ryan Cowley. Colouring book (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 8-year-old Jude Robertson (self-published, 2024).
• The Five of Us by Quentin Blake. The story of a group of children, one of whom, Eric, has a stammer, though it isn't 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 (Scholastic, 2021).
• Different Like Us by Margaret Rooke (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2025).
• Franky Banky in Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Mirth by Daniele Rossi (self-published, 2023).
• How to be More Hedgehog by Anne-Marie Conway (UCLan Publishing, 2022).
• The Stuttering Coach by Martin Scott (Austin Macauley, 2022).
• Stuttering Monster by John Blosse (Haven of Hope Publishing, 2025).   

Books for teens/young adults

• Different Like Us by Margaret Rooke (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2025).
• Do You Stutter? A Guide for Teens. Edited by Jane Fraser & William Perkins. Published by the Stuttering Foundation of America (2013).
• Midget by Tim Bowler. A story about 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 (Haven of Hope Publishing, 2025).