Look, it's me!

The bouncing rhyme of the text inspires joy as you read it out loud

A cartoon of a white person with light orange-blush hair falling to their shoulders and blue eyes behind round, black frame glasses. they have a series of black studs in their ears and are wearing a cream and grey checkered button-up underneath a yellow T-shirt with an egg design on the right chest. they stand in front of an orange ombre background, with a sprinkling of yellow sparkles

Review by: Aegon

Gold coloured stars for the rating - 5 stars.
A cartoon of a white person with light orange-blush hair falling to their shoulders and blue eyes behind round, black frame glasses. they have a series of black studs in their ears and are wearing a cream and grey checkered button-up underneath a yellow T-shirt with an egg design on the right chest. they stand in front of an orange ombre background, with a sprinkling of yellow sparkles

Review by:
Aegon

Gold coloured stars for the rating - 5 stars.
This cover features a blue book cover with cartoon characters in various poses. In the centre of the image is a door, open with a family of five people - two adults and three children - and their dog! A girl in a wheelchair is waving at the reader and about to be welcomed into the house. Text on the cover includes the title and authors. The title "Come over to my house" is curved over the door as a welcoming sign.

Come over to my house

By Eliza Hull and Sally Rippon

The bouncing rhyme of the text inspires joy as you read it out loud

The story normalises the existence of disability and household accommodations, with the disabled characters and their personalities shining strongly both through text and illustration.

Each household is slightly different – one household uses Auslan to communicate; one household has a perfect-sized treehouse for a dad with dwarfism to climb into; one household has a library of books written in Braille.

What is important to note, as we visit each of these households, is that it is us, the readers, the visitors, who adapt to the disabilities of those who live there.

The end of the book lists each child of the disabled households, though occasionally it is one of the adults in the households who are disabled. Each child has a little blurb about the disability in the household and shares an insight into the personality of the child and their family members.

‘Come Over to My House’ is an excellent book to start a conversation with children about how they can interact with disabled people both in their household and out in the world.