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Annie And Helen (2012)

by Deborah Hopkinson(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0375957065 (ISBN13: 9780375957062)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Schwartz & Wade

review 1: I checked this out from the Library to read to my three year old. We don't watch television, but we read many many books. I am always trying to find ones that will educate as well as keep her attention. At three this is sometimes hard to do. However, she really enjoyed this book, especially when Annie is first teaching Helen the hand gestures. I really enjoyed reading this to her, and we will definitely have to revisit this one!
review 2: With powerful watercolor illustrations that allow emotions to play over the faces of this book's subjects, Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller, and the Braille alphabet on the book's back cover, readers are thrust into the world of a child whose teacher opened the world's possibilities to her. Since the book contains excerpts... more from letters written by both women, it is possible to experience Sullivan's frustration and determination to work with Helen. The text also highlights the joy with which Helen finally realizes the word for water. Teachers will do well to read this book carefully since it describes many of the techniques that this teacher used so successfully with her student in 1887. In fact, the book primarily covers only that one year with glimpses from Helen's later years on the endpapers. This book belongs in a text set on disabilities, of course, but also one devoted to those who strive against long odds. Both women remain ever-fascinating, long after their deaths. less

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