Mama Car

This gentle picture book tale is a wonderful celebration of a mother’s wheelchair as seen through the eyes of her young daughter. For her, ‘Mama’s Car’ is part of everyday life, providing expeditions to get snacks from the kitchen, rides around the house and back to the bedroom, with a chance to play and make it pretty. The Mama Car has so many things, but best of all, it has Mummy.

As a part of the child’s life from the beginning, the normality and acceptance of her mother’s wheelchair is gloriously celebrated as a thing of comfort and joy, without any stigma being attached, which is as it should be.

Award-winning illustrator Karen George’s beautifully simple but effective pictures show a family living their day-to-day life, with Mama’s car being just another part of it.

As a wheelchair user herself, author Catchpole wrote the book based on her experiences with her own children and has spoken of how her chair is precious to them, because it is so very close to her. This oozes out of her story.

It is ever more important that our books represent the diverse world around us and that children are able to see their own homes and families in the books they read from an early age upwards. This book is a delightful, proud and important story that should be shared as widely as possible.