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In The Picture Champions - The book world
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Adrian Cole, Sarah Peutrill and Jackie Hamley - Franklin Watts Publishers/Hachette Children's Books |
At the In The Picture Picture this! evening reception in London on 15 April 2008, Jackie Hamley and Sarah Peutrill collected an In The Picture Champions Award from Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Cherie Booth QC on behalf of Franklin Watts Publishers - you can read below how they have "championed" the project.
Cherie Booth QC, Jackie Hamley, Sarah Peutrill and Dame Jacqueline Wilson
Franklin Watts Publishers - putting disabled children "in the picture"!
Three Franklin Watts employees have involved In The Picture in books that have resulted in disabled children being included.
The photo shoot |
Adrian Cole and Sarah Peutrill organised photo shoots in London with two groups of disabled children so that they could be photographed alongside their non disabled peers for a series of early years science books: Tiger Talk and Your Body - Inside and Out. They went to a lot of trouble to source a photographer who could move to a more accessible studio. The children and their families felt welcomed and thoroughly enjoyed the experience! |
In another book Jackie Hamley was inspired by the swimming pool image in the project image bank and included, with the artist's permission a similar accessible chair and ramp in the background of Harry's Hat by Sue Graves and Belinda Worsley in the Reading Corner series.
This has been part of a general Franklin Watts' initiative to include incidental images of disabled people across the full range of its list.
The photo shoot work has highlighted the need for more model agencies to be geared up to enrolling disabled children as well as non disabled children for this sort of work and given the In The Picture team valuable insight for possible future development work.
The impact of a whole series of mainstream books casually including disabled children is likely to be high and the swimming pool picture is a good example of how to show an accessible environment in a subtle way. How the environment is adapted for disabled people is often overlooked but showing examples of this in children's books is a powerful way to get across positive messages.
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