Summer is a great time to listen to, touch and read books, as well as to visit your public library.  CELA offers books in a variety of accessible formats such as DAISY audio and braille. Bookshare titles are also available in audio and braille, but offers more e-book formats which display the words on the screen such as in DAISY text, Epub and Word.  Many CELA patrons will be able to access books from Bookshare, but some will be required to submit a completed Proof of Disability form and email it to members@celalibrary.ca.  Please note that libraries who access books on behalf of their patrons with print disabilities will only be able to order CELA titles.

For information about our formats and the reading apps and devices used to read them, visit our Help page.

Audio or Braille

Avalanche! (Survivor Diaries) by Terry Lynn Johnson

Be a City Nature Detective: Solving the Mysteries of How Plants and Animals Survive in the Urban Jungle by Peggy Kochanoff

Carson Crosses Canada by Linda Bailey

Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate?: How Animals Keep Warm by Etta Kaner

The Elephant Keeper: Caring for Orphaned Elephants in Zambia by Margriet Ruurs

Going Wild: Helping Nature Thrive in Cities by Michelle Mulder

Lost! by Terry-Lynn Johnson

Mountains of the World by Dieter Braun

Sukaq and the Raven by Roy Goose

The Train of Lost Things by Ammi-Joan Paquette

Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People (audio) by Eldon Yellowhorn

Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People (braille) by Eldon Yellowhorn 

What Makes a Monster?: Discovering the World's Scariest Creatures by Jess Keating

Wild Buildings and Bridges: Architecture Inspired by Nature by Etta Kaner

Printbraille (picture books with braille)

Please use the printbraille request form to order titles. Once you have read the book, please place it back in its bag, flip the address card over and put the bag back in the mail (post free).

Carson crosses Canada by Linda Bailey

Sukaq and the Raven by Roy Goose

The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall

The Digger and the Flower by Joseph Kuefler

Island and the Salish Sea by Sheryl McFarlane

Poetree by Caroline Pignat

I Love You Like... by Lori Joy Smith

Splish, Splash, Foxes Dash! by Geraldo Valéro

Audio, braille and e-text titles from Bookshare (proof of disability required and for patrons only)

Avalanche! (Survivor Diaries) by Terry Lynn Johnson

The Train of Lost Things by Ammi-Joan Paquette