Helen Keller (Young Yearling Book) [Paperback]

Stewart Graff (Author), Polly Anne Graff (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Young Yearling Book

From the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller could not hear. She could not see, and she did not speak. She lived in a dark and lonely world--until Annie Sullivan came to teach her. Annie traced letters and words in Helen's hand, and made Helen realize she could "talk" to people. Eager to make up for lost time, Helen threw herself into her studies. She decided to teach others about the special training deaf and blind children need. Helen traveled all over the globe and raised money to start up schools for deaf and blind children. Her courage and her determination to help others conquer the odds against them earned her the respect and admiration of the world.

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From the Publisher

From the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller could not hear. She could not see, and she did not speak. She lived in a dark and lonely world--until Annie Sullivan came to teach her. Annie traced letters and words in Helen's hand, and made Helen realize she could "talk" to people. Eager to make up for lost time, Helen threw herself into her studies. She decided to teach others about the special training deaf and blind children need. Helen traveled all over the globe and raised money to start up schools for deaf and blind children. Her courage and her determination to help others conquer the odds against them earned her the respect and admiration of the world.

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From the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller could not hear. She could not see, and she did not speak. She lived in a dark and lonely world--until Annie Sullivan came to teach her. Annie traced letters and words in Helen's hand, and made Helen realize she could "talk" to people. Eager to make up for lost time, Helen threw herself into her studies. She decided to teach others about the special training deaf and blind children need. Helen traveled all over the globe and raised money to start up schools for deaf and blind children. Her courage and her determination to help others conquer the odds against them earned her the respect and admiration of the world.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Yearling (March 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440404398
• ISBN-13: 978-0440404392
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.2 x 7.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #25 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > People & Places > Social Issues > Special Needs > Nonfiction
  • #77 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > People & Places > Biographies > United States

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The awsome book Helen keller, May 9, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Helen Keller (Young Yearling Book) (Paperback)

The book is awesome because it was about Helen Keller. She was blind,deaf and could not talk. It was Helen Keller's birthday, and she went to go eat some cake and her mom took the cake away from her. And she went running outside and she fell and hurt her self with thorns. Then Helen Keller went with this teacher so they can show her. And at the end she could hear and she was not deaf and she could talk.

I thik the author tride to tell us that it dosent mater if your blind deaf and could not talk. You still count the same And he tride to tell us that don't be embbarresed if you can't talk.

I think that it was a good book. Because it tells you about alot of things. And like I said it explains very good and sugest you read the book Helen Keller.

IT'S THE BEST

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A REFRESHING TRIP PAST THE WATER PUMP, November 20, 2000

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This review is from: Helen Keller (Young Yearling Book) (Paperback)

This is an excellent starter book that introduces Helen Keller to young readers. Deaf and blind since the age of 1 1/2, Helen communicated by a means of crude signs. Desperate to reach their child, Helen's parents hired a young "teacher," named Anne Sullivan. Nearly blind herself, Annie spelled words into Helen's hand in order to impress upon her the concept of identifying all objects and people. This book does a good job of not remaining stuck at the water pump where Annie's lesson reached its mark.

I like the way the book follows Helen's progress and follows her down the road beyond that water pump. She becomes a fund raiser for other deaf-blind children and is a supporter of the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where she is a student. She embarks on fund raisers and sends numerous letters to newspapers banging on the drum for persons both deaf and blind. Tommy Stringer, a young boy from the Philadelphia area becomes Helen's first "charge." Once having raised the money for Tommy's entrance to the Kindergarten for the Blind at Perkins, Helen's quest to do even more for other children in need snowballs. More deaf and blind children are admitted to Perkins through Helen's soldierly efforts and this takes place when she is not quite 12!

This book does an admirable job of making Helen Keller accessible to younger readers. It is a book I would recommend.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helen Kellen, May 9, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Helen Keller (Young Yearling Book) (Paperback)

The story is about a girl that is disabould. One day she got very mad at everybody. That she started it hit her little sister. And her mother and father. So her perents decided to call a special teacher. To help her get through all this anger. So the teacher that help Helen was Annie.

Is not given up on disabould kids. Because just how Helen got through all of this she made is too. Where she could talk a couple of wards. That us people that are not disabould . Can say like water,spone. So think that's the theme.

What I like about this book is that. It shows lots of love and care. I recommend this book to the whole world. Because it is a very good book to the disabould kids. Like Helen Keller. You can learn alot by this book.