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Kami and the Yaks Written by Andrea Stenn Stryer Illustrated by Bert Dodson Bay Otter Press, 2007, 48 pp., ISBN 978-0-9778961-0-3
Kami and the Yaks won the Schneider Family Book Award, given to books that portray disability experience for children and adolescent audiences. This story is inspired by a determined, deaf Sherpa boy whom Stryer met while trekking around Mount Everest in Nepal. It tells the story of the Sherpas who first came to the Everest region of Nepal from Tibet...