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Helen Keller: A photographic story of a life (DK Biography)

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"Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~Helen Keller

The DK Biographies introduce children to famous and influential individuals, although I personally also enjoy reading these tiny biographies. It is a great way to gain insight into a life and Helen Keller is a symbol of overcoming limitations. She refused to live her life shut away in a dark room and instead she taught herself to speak many languages, traveled to many countries and loved to read.

Helen Keller's life is truly inspirational and although her life started out in such a bleak way, she overcame many obstacles and eventually exceeded everyone's expectations. She was actually world-famous by the age of 10. It is truly amazing to see the articles she wrote at age 12.

After we read about the initial illness that left her blind and deaf, Leslie Garrett takes us on a beautiful journey through Helen's life. She was quite the little prankster as a child and also had a great sense of humor about life in general. She also had a temper and this is where Annie Sullivan enters the picture.

We learn about Annie Sullivan's life and how Helen and Annie meet. Leslie Garrett explains how Helen learns about life and how to live in a world where few people understand her. Annie shows extreme patience in very difficult situations and eventually teaches Helen how to deal with everyday situations. She also teaches her how to read and later on attends college classes with her to spell out the lessons into her hand.

Leslie Garrett's writing style is perfect for this story and this is definitely one of my favorite DK biographies. After reading this story, you will never again think about life in the same way.

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." ~Helen Keller

~The Rebecca Review

Imagine being blind your whole life. Well this person was Helen Keller! This book Helen Keller is about the story life of Helen growing up blind. She is an amazing person she had to learn how to talk with her hands and that was hard because she was blind and deaf. The author of this book was Leslie Garrett. I think this book is for 9 to 16 year olds. This book has 121 pages. This biography is a fantastic book.
Helen Keller was an amazing woman she was blind and deaf her whole like. Did you know that Helen went to Harvard, that's the best college in the world? Helen had many challenges in her life she had lost a lot of her family when she was younger. When she was about 9 years old this girl named Annie came to help Helen be able to live a happier life being blind and deaf. Helen and Annie worked hard so Helen could live a good life. When Helen grew up she made many movies and books during her life. Without Annie's help and guidance she would not have seceded.
When I read Helen Keller I think my favorite part of the book was when she was going to Harvard and when she studying, it's a huge part of the book!
When I read this book the most important thing I learned from reading this book was keep trying and don't ever give up!
There are lots of books like this one, but there are lots of other DK books on Helen Keller. Also and other people like Albert Einstein and more!
My recommendation for reading this book Helen Keller is you will be amazed at how Helen got to where she was at and Annie was huge part of Helens life. You will love this biography! I would give this biography 5 big star!!!!!

I thought that this book was pretty good. I am not much of a person who reads biographies but I thought that it was very informative about Hellen Keller's life and it made a good read.

I thought this was a very nicely done biography on Helen Keller. Its intended audience is the young reader but I found it interesting and satisfying as an adult. I love old photographs and was impressed by how many were included in this brief book, it's aptly named "a photographic story of a life".

I liked the way the author was able to appeal to a broad range of readers by inserting explanations for concepts and words younger readers might not yet know off to the side of the general text of the story. For example abstract, proctor, inauguration and Bachelor of Arts are all defined inside an unobtrusive text box at the edge of a page.

I also liked the way the author didn't sugar-coat issues, she included the fact that Annie Sullivan had detractors and at one point Helen was separated from Annie in an attempt to protect Helen. I found this book very interesting and informative and would recommend it to young and old alike.

While this series is designed to be useful to younger readers in learning about the lives of famous people I found HELEN KELLER: A PHOTOGRAPHIC STORY OF A LIFE by Leslie Garrett to be very satisfying as an adult. The pictures are wonderful but the text is also outstanding. I would highly recommend this to be used by families who want to interest their children in learning. Along with the film THE MIRACLE WORKER this would provide an excellent insight into the life of a very inspiring person and to those who taught her.

This book on Helen Keller is one of the best biographies with lot of photographs and also written in simple style...It has lot of background info ,not found in Helen Keller's autobiography;the poignant story of HK will be well received by generations of readers and this book owuld fill the need.

I bought this as an additon to a classroom unit I do on Helen Keller. As with all DK books, it is concise and easy to explore and read. It gives even my very young students intereting, factual information in an easily readable/browsable format.

I had always been captivated by the concept of her life. Then, years later by sheer coincidence, got involved rescuing deaf blind dogs. I had to know what their lives are like. So I started reading Helen, as many people who have these dogs name them Helen or Keller. I was astounded, dumbfounded, beyond moved, by her JOY OF LIFE! My biggest fear was that I was not understanding the dark and silent world my dogs inhabit, and having delved vicariously into their thoughts, I understand they do have silly joy, amazing intelligence, and ABILITY.

Helen will always be a motivating force in my life.

This woman accomplished far more than one thousand sighted hearing humans ever dreamt of.