This year for DS Awareness Month we’re on a mission to get Everyone Belongs into classrooms around the nation. And we need your help!

Three easy steps to get started today:

1. Join the Everyone Belongs community Facebook Group here.

2. Create an Amazon list for your classroom. For instructions on how to create a list click here.

3. Share your celebration.


Everyone Belongs by New York Times bestselling author Heather Avis: A joyful rhyming book that encourages children to not only value all people but to also make room for their differences in order to make a better, brighter, and more beautiful world, from the New York Times best-selling author of Different—A Great Thing to Be!

Sign up to qualify for a virtual book reading of Everyone Belongs by author Heather Avis. For every classroom filling the arms of their students with the beauty of Everyone Belongs, please fill out your request for a book reading below.

Downloadable Graphics Use these sharable custom graphics on your social media to encourage your teachers, friends family and community to donate a book for your classroom.

FREE Classroom Kit

We are so excited to share this resource! Whether you’re a parent, educator, Sunday school teacher, therapist, or just looking to make the world a more inclusive place, this kit is for you! Mostly, we want you and the children using this resource to be inspired, encouraged, and reminded that it’s possible to make room for all people and all abilities—and that life is brighter when we give every person a chance to shine.