Book Descriptions
for Balancing Girl by Berniece Rabe and Lillian Hoban
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Margaret can balance a book on her head and blocks in a tower. A determined and competitive child finds yet another way to be successful at the school carnival; the wheelchair and leg braces she uses are incidental to her full involvement in classroom and peer activities. The subdued colors of the drawings and paintings picture a contemporary classroom. (4-9 years)
CCBC Choices 1981 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1981. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
A first grader who is very good at balancing objects while in her wheelchair and on her crutches thinks up her greatest balancing act ever to benefit the school carnival.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.