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Curious Mind and Dancing Feet: A book about ADHD

Written by Melinda González
Illustrated by Amélie Videlo
Published by Free Spirit Publishing

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.

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Publication Date: August 2026
Available As: Paperback, eBook
Picture Book, Age 05 or older

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Setting: United States

Character's Place in the Immigration Journey: Unknown Arrival

Book Creator(s) Connection to the Community Represented: Own Voices/Lived Experience

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