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Cochlear Implant Books

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This is a list of books that have characters with Cochlear Implants. Some of these characters may also use ASL.

Mr Mellow Likes Yellow

Mr.Mellow has one hearing aid and one cochlear implant. Book focuses on rhyming and colors!

Also available in Spanish

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Extraordinary Jordyn and her Bionic Ears

Meet Jordyn with her CI and HA. Learn how extraordinary she is, and how to overcome judgement! (by a DeafBlind Audioligist!)

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Mighty Mila

A young girl with bilateral implants who wants to act all grown up, but is still a kid!

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Mickey on the Move

Mickey moves to a new school, with his cochlear implants so he does things just a little different.

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Sammy and his Super Ears

 Sammy is just a sea turtle with SUPER EARS that likes to play just like they do.

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Making a New Friend 

Maya has cochlear implants and meets Sid. They become friends and learn all about the ears, the brain, and sounds!

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Mila gets her Super Ears
 

Join Mila and her family as she navigates a world of hearing loss, with hearing aids and cochlear implants.

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Camden and His Superpower Ears

Camden attends a new school. He is nervous about his CIs. He  learns everyone is nice and wants to learn about his CIs!

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Field Day Rules! (Kids' Sports Stories)

Join Raj and his friends at field day!

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One of his friends wears a CI, prominent in the pictures but not mentioned.

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Signing with Oliver

Chapter Book

Oliver is Deaf with CI and uses ASL. Learn about his residential school and his sleepover with his friend Derek, who is also Deaf!

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Sound Switch Wonder

Most people either can or cannot hear sound . . . but some people can do both! Meet a deaf boy with CIs who sometimes prefers not to hear.

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Daisy Doo All the Sounds she Knew

Meet Daisy Doo and learn why she loves her Cochlear Implants!

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Caleb and the Sandy Situation

Not all heroes wear capes. Caleb bravely runs to help his friends whenever he hears trouble. He uses his imagination and his bionic ears to save the day!

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Marsha is Magnetic

Marsha is having a birthday party and needs to make friends, and she uses the scientific method to do it! One of these new friends has a Cochlear Implant.

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The Sound Superhero: A Cochlear Implant Tale

Aria embarks on a magical adventure into the world of CIs. Aria sets out to explore the thrilling process of getting a CI. 

SPANISH VERSION

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Do it with LOVE

This book’s objective is to explain what a cochlear implant is and how it works and highlights that looks do not matter.

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Celebrate! Our Differences

Learn to be confident in who you are while respecting the uniqueness of others. 

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I Know How I Feel

Join Aanya and friends as they talk about feelings!

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Out on the Trail: Celebrate!

Come along and explore your five senses on the nature trail.

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Aanya is in this story with her Cochlear Implant.

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Seeing Life Through My Hears

Step into a world where the magic of listening unfolds through the pages of this  book of poems. Each chapter introduces a new friend, with their own relationship with sound.

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Emma and Egor: Signed Exact English

Emma has a cochlear implant.

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This is a series of books in Signed Exact English. Topics include: feelings, days, ABC, numbers, and more. 

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The Bread Pet

Cora promises to keep Uncle JB’s Bread Pet alive but didn’t anticipate its exponential growth! She needs to come up with a solution -- and fast!

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Dr. Ochoa’s Stellar World: Engineering: English/Spanish

Be introduced to the world of engineering and how imagination leads to space exploration, like sending rockets back to the moon or programming rovers to roam the lands of Mars.

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Jeet & Fudge: Dance! Dance! Dance!

Davina is deaf, and learning the dance moves without hearing the beat proves tricky. To make sure everyone can shine on stage, her friends brainstorm creative ways to help.​​

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Sound Catchers

Sound Catchers is about Maddy, a twin girl who has hearing loss. Initially, she has bilateral hearing aids. As her loss progresses, she makes the transition to cochlear implants.

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The Sound of Christmas

Ted has waited all year for Christmas, but this year is different. After years of struggling with hearing loss, Ted has recently received a cochlear implant.

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My Noisy Trip

My Noisy Trip is a beautifully illustrated rhyming bedtime story about a family that travels, full of fun adventures and familiar animals sounds. 

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Just an Otter Day (series)

Ollie had HA and gets CIs! This book encourages parents to work with their child and is full of fun rhymes! â€‹

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Ada and the Helpers

She has cochlear implants and loves to dance. Each page has one word fingerspelled.

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Emma Every Day (Series)

Short chapter books with fingerspelling, about a deaf girl with a cochlear implant. Talks real issues for children.

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Ling Ling Bird Hears with his Magic Ears

Ling Ling Bird uses his cochlear implants to work on early stages of listening and speaking.

Available in Spanish

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The Monster at the Park

Two friends head to the park, and one of them has a Cochlear implant but is not the focus of the story.

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Mickey on the Move: Farming

His Aqua Cochlear implants allow him to hear sounds in nature without the worry of weather dampening his day!

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Ling Ling Bird Loves Christmas

Join Ling Ling Bird and his family's  adventures at this time of the year!

Available in Spanish

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Alex and the Good Day: A Day in the Life W/ Cochlear Implants 

Follow along with Alex on his good day. Alex has cochlear implants. He likes sports and hanging out with his friends and family. 

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I'm Getting a Cochlear Implant!: Learn About How I Will Hear!

Learn about the CI process. Follow this girl as she learns how accessing sound with a CI is similar and different than her peers.

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My Deaf Life

Sarah, a real deaf 11 year old wrote this book about her experience 

getting a CI. She about going through this life-changing experience. 

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From There To HEAR...How I Got My Cochlear Implant

Cade and family share their experience going from hearing aids to a cochlear implant, in a way that's easy for a kid to understand

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Tate and His Super Hear-O Cape

Follow Tate's journey with Hearing aids and then getting Cochlear Implants!

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Let's Hear it for Almigal

Almigal, a spunky little girl who is determined to hear every sound in the universe because of her new cotton candy pink CI.

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Mason's Superpower

This is about an awesome little boy who was born with sensorineural hearing and wears a Cochlear implant.

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My Friend Taylor

A young girl introduces her friend Taylor who has hearing loss

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Story may use word Hearing Impaired

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Never Ever Build A Blanket Fort

It could be a comfy little reading space... or it could transform into something much more medieval! 

(Loosely based on the bible)

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I Can Wash my Hands

Aanya and her pet cat, Neela, discover their daily activities leave hands sticky, dirty, or covered in germs. Learn how to wash your hands.

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Let's Celebrate! Favorite Foods

Join Aanya and friends as they talk about their favorite foods from around the world!

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Pick Your Promises

Aanya and her friends have to learn to keep their promises.

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Communication is More than Words

Not everyone communicates with their voice. Some use AAC , PECS, sign language, and body language to communicate.

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The Lost Puppy Adventure

Journey through Oak Meadow Park with this trio on a mission to find Miss Mary's cherished puppy, Winnie, who has gone missing.

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Billie has CIs!

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Most Days

This is a book about mindfulness. About relishing the magic of the here and now. About enjoying the extraordinary unfoldings of an ordinary day.

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Livyloos Quiet Morning

You are invited to embark on Livyloo’s journey as her pals try to wake her up in time for school.

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LivyLoo has a CI and a hearing twin sister

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Makenna's Magic Ear

Told through the eyes of three year old Makenna is the story of getting a cochlear implant from the discovery of the hearing loss at birth. 

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Xanthe the Cochlear Implant

Xanthe isn’t just any cochlear implant—she’s full of curiosity and courage! Along with friends Echo the seahorse and Swirly the shell-covered snail, Xanthe discovers a treasure map.

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My Noisy Christmas

A Ling story, we return to the loveable, loud family on Christmas Eve.
When something shakes the young boy awake,what could it be?

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Rally Caps

Jordan is injured  while trying out. Scared to get back to baseball he meets Luca with his CI, who can do anything.

 

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C.I. Quest

Help the farm animals find the farmers processors! Rhyming and animal sounds!

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Also available in Spanish

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Icky Sticky Stuck!

Listening sounds on the farm. The farmer has implants but that is not the focus of the story.

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Sounds I Hear with my Magic Ears

Follow Kaitlin as she explores a world full of sound hear through her Magical Ears!

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Sleep Tight, Teddy (Board Book)

Teddy's in bed ready for a chat, main character has an Cochlear implant but not the main focus of the story.

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Ling Ling Bird Seen and Heard

Ling Ling Bird teaches you all about the cochlear implant and how it helps! 

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Also available in Spanish

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A Girl like Ananya

Learn about Ananya and her multi-identities. Deaf with CI in a mainstream school. 

Available in Spanish

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Cheer Champs (Kids' Sports Stories)

Leah wants to use her gymnastics skills by joining the cheer squad. Leah is deaf, and she worries that this will make cheer difficult. 

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Jill’s First Day of School: Based on a True Story

The first day at a school can be scary,  when you are deaf and meeting students for the first time who don’t have problems hearing each other.

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Could a Deaf Girl Sing? (Special Children)

Be curious and try new things! We can do anything!

This story has negative comments to the Deaf girl about how she "can't".

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Gavin's Amazing New Ears

What are cochlear implants? Gavin's Amazing New Ears will explain just that!Go on Gavin's journey through deafness and into the hearing world.

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Bug Club Stories (Series)

Meet the Bug Club! One of the friends has a Cochlear Implant. 

They meet every Saturday to learn about Creepy Crawlies. 

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By Myself!

This toddler wants to be independent, but soon realizes that she and her big sister can help each other! Big sister has a Cochlear Implant!​

Spanish Version

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Cordelia and Me

This book about children overcoming disabilities whether visible or invisible and to not judge a book by its cover.

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Emma's Ear

Emma was born profoundly deaf. She tells you the story of her ears, from hearing aids to the cochlear implants she gets at two years old. 

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Defeat Disobedience

Aanya, Sarah, and Ezekiel experience the natural consequences of disobeying their parents, teachers and coaches. Aanya has a Cochlear Implant.

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Celebrate! Flying Colors

Children play outside during recess at childcare, learning about colors from birds and butterflies. Each page features a new color.

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Hello, World! I'm a Programmer!

Have you ever wondered how computers know to do the things they do? Programmers tell them!

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Every Hero Has a Story: Hearing Loss

Met Alex. He has a Cochlear Implant and his entire family knows sign language just for him!

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Outside In

What will you find, discover, and learn just outside your own front door?

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The little boy just happens to have CIs!

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Jo Bright and the Seven Bots

Snow White gets a retelling with an inventive heroine. With wit, bravery, and spare circuit boards, Jo foils the queen, meets a dragon, and has a happy ending.

The white piece in her hair is a cochlear implant. 

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Dr. Ochoa's Stellar World: Arts

Little ones will be guided through an out-of-this-world journey through the arts, from acting, painting, dancing, and much more.

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Bilingual English and Spanish!

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Jasmine's Magic Hearing Machines

Jasmine has a big dream,she wants to be a dancer! But with a CI and Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA), she faces challenges that others don’t always understand.

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Oaklia Implant

The audiologist and speech therapist advised  a cochlear for Ray, to improve her hearing and speech. From frequently asking “what did you say?” Ray started questioning “this has sound?”.

Ray has ANSD

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Ears to Hear: Caden Gets Processors

Today is the day! Caden is getting his processors and Cassie is so excited. But how does Cadens new hearing work? Will Caden be able to talk? What does a processor look like?

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My Noisy House

My Noisy House is a beautifully illustrated rhyming bedtime story about six floors of fun adventures and familiar animals sounds.

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This page is updated as I find more books to add. Please contact me with any suggestions.

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