Out now with Allen and Unwin: All The Ways I See, the debut picture book from Nas Campanella and Eliza Hull, illustrated by our client Sophie Beer! ☀️🏝️
Vividly evoking a blind child's joyful experience of a day at the beach, this highly accessible picture book comes from a stellar creative team with a range of innovative accessibility features to suit all readers.
I can't see summer, but it's clear in my mind.
I hear it, I feel it, in my heart all the time.
This incredibly accessible Australian picture book is a groundbreaking collaboration between Nas Campanella, the National Disability Affairs Reporter for ABC News, and writer, musician and disability advocate, Eliza Hull OAM, gorgeously illustrated by the award-winning Sophie Beer.
All the Ways I See is a joyful, lyrical story about a day at the beach from a blind child's perspective as she experiences the baking heat, the sticky sand, the hum of the ocean, the smell of hot chips and the splash of the waves.
This book has been designed with blind, low vision, Deaf and/or hard of hearing audiences in mind, as well as families who are looking for stories about mindfulness and living in the moment. Innovative accessibility features include easy-to-turn pages with rounded corners, textured elements for a tactile experience, a link to access audio and sign language interpreted readings and a link to order a braille translation produced by Braille Hous
Here's what Sophie said about this gorgeous project: 'This is the most accessible kids book ever published in Australia, with braille and Auslan translations, rounded top corners, predictable text placement, and tactile illustrated shapes inside! As a hard of hearing person, this project means the world to me and I'm so excited to get it into the hands of little Aussies everywhere.'
