Abstract
The International Youth Library in Munich houses the Anne Pellowski Collection of Cloth Books, and the Collection of Cloth Books, both of which contain a range of books designed for children with disabilities. In this paper, I present these two collections. Anne Pellowski held workshops on making cloth books all around the world and these books are present in the Pellowski Collection, alongside the cloth books designed for children with disabilities that inspired Pellowski. The library’s other Collection of Cloth Books also contains books designed for children with disabilities and there is a small but interesting overlap in the inventories of the two collections. Together, they provide rare and important examples of cloth and tactile books designed for children with disabilities, as well as demonstrating the inclusive potential of cloth books more broadly.