David Baddiel: children’s fiction needs more wheelchair whizzkids

Disability featured prominently in only one title for young readers in the last 12 months’ top 100 bestsellers, research shows

Disabled children have been “airbrushed” out of bestselling children’s fiction for more than a century in order to present an unrealistic version of the world, David Baddiel has said.

The comedian and children’s author criticised popular modern children’s books for featuring fewer disabled characters than were portrayed during the Victorian era, when children with disabilities often starred in bestselling novels, such as Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.

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