Picture Book #16

Title: Momma Zooms

Author:  Jane Cowen-Fletcher

Genre: Fiction

Sub genre: Picture book

Themes: Family, Disability, Imagination

Publishing Date: 1992

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Summary: Momma zooms her son everywhere. She is in a wheelchair, and the son doesn't think one thing of it. He uses it in a good way. He calls her wheelchair the zoom machine. Both of the parents join in on all his imagination and fun he has while sitting in his momma's lap. They zoom and zoom and zoom everywhere they go. His favorite one is when his momma zooms his to bed and that's when his momma can just be his momma.

This book would be great to address people with disabilities and how they are the same as the students. This book will even make the students want to zoom in a wheelchair themselves. After the book is read, students can discuss how they would feel and challenges they may face if they were in a wheelchair. Students can then come up with ways of how they would overcome those challenges. The ideas will be collected and the students will then get to ride in their own wheelchair and try to overcome those obstacles. This will help students be more accepting of people with physical handicaps.