King For A Day Essay

“King for a day”

The story book I will be talk about is called “King for a day” by Rukhsana Khan (2014). This is a great book to introduce inclusion education to the children that portray positive messages. It is a story about a boy named Malik who is an expert in flying kites, he had a competition with the boy at next door who bullying his sister, he picks up a battle with the bully and wins. They had the kite battle from the rooftop. Falcon, the special kite he has built for speed.

Kathy (2016) has said there are lack of character with disability or impairment in the children’s literacy. The representation of character in literacy is important to children who experience disability to work towards inclusion, because it communicates strong message to the children with disability, as they identify with characters who are like themselves, and it helps to disestablish ableism.

The story had adapt the uses social model approach, the tragedy model and the medical model view was not shown in this story book, since the label of disability or impairment is not mentioned in the text. The use of social model approach for the story book can help

The author uses the boy in the wheel chair as the hero of the story supports the children with disability to maintain or increase their self-confidence. It also send message to the children without disability that despite the difference of children with disability, they are also a value member in the society, and should be respect as everyone else. According to Kathy (2016), reading inclusive story to children can prevent children to have negative attitude towards children with disability or impairment, and help them to see people with disability as a whole person, and not focuses on their disability