Free Spirit Publishing 9798885547475 Pub Date: 8/25/2026 $12.99 Trade Paperback 36 Pages full-color Carton Qty: 88 Ages 5 to 9, Grades K to 4 Juvenile Fiction / Neurodiversity JUV077000 Series: Disability Books for Kids Related Products Ebooks 9798885547482 9798885547499 9798885547505 Curious Mind and Dancing Feet A book about ADHD Melinda González, Amélie Videlo Key Selling Points • Written by an author with ADHD, drawing on her own childhood experience • Teaches children what ADHD is and what it's like to have an ADHD brain • Features a Puerto Rican and Muslim girl main character, providing important representation • Encourages empathy, with first-person storytelling from a child's perspective • Fits well with Disability Pride Month lists and collections • Portrays the joys and the challenges experienced by people with ADHD In Curious Mind and Dancing Feet, we meet a young Puerto Rican Muslim girl with ADHD. She explains what life is like from her perspective—vibrant, exciting, colorful, and sometimes overwhelming. We accompany her as her attention follows her interests, and as her enthusiasm occasionally puzzles others. She shows us how breathing helps her feel peaceful and calm—and proud of her ADHD. Summary A young girl with ADHD celebrates what makes her who she is In Curious Mind and Dancing Feet, a young girl explains what it’s like to live with ADHD. Sometimes her mind wants to wander, and she often gets the wiggles. But when it comes to bugs, she’s laser focused. People don’t understand why she fills her pockets with bug-friendly snacks, and they don’t have to. The important thing is, her Mami, Abuelita, and friends understand, and they help her embrace her ADHD when she starts to feel jumbled up. With ADHD, life is complicated—and full of joy and wonder. Offers an honest portrayal of life with ADHD, including challenges and strengths Celebrates disability joy and offers an empowering self-representation for disabled kids Helps children develop empathy and understanding with first-person storytelling from a child’s perspective Centers disabled voices by drawing on the author’s experience with ADHD Features a Puerto Rican and Muslim girl as the main character The Disability Books for Kids series explores visible and invisible disability in the first person, as seen through the eyes of children and written from firsthand experience. The series builds allyship, challenges ableism, and celebrates difference, empowering and educating all readers. Each book includes an author’s note to the reader. Contributor Bio Dr. Melinda González is a poet, spoken word artist, storyteller, anthropologist, and educator of Afro-Indigenous/Puerto Rican descent. Curious Mind and Dancing Feet is her debut as a children’s author. She has performed poetry internationally under the pen name La Poeta Guerrera. As a socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in environmental anthropology, Melinda’s work maps how disaster is differentially distributed across race, class, and gender. She brings decolonial and Indigenous research methods to environmental justice studies. She has facilitated creative writing and academic workshops as tools to resist colonial repression and to support poets, writers, and scholars in finding and strengthening their authentic voices throughout their academic and creative journeys. Her poetry and writing have appeared in both academic and literary journals and on the stage. Melinda believes in the transformative power of storytelling to imagine new futures and nurture hope across generations. Amélie Videlo is a French/Mauritian illustrator based in the UK. Family and nostalgia from her childhood inspire her the most. She loves making pictures full of rich flora and TCM FSP Shell and CUB 2026 Titles
