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Gr 6–8—The story of Sullivan, who was visually impaired herself, starts off with her in the Keller home wrestling with the difficult task of teaching the young blind and deaf child. As the story progresses, readers see the difficult times that Sullivan had as a child, losing family and becoming an orphan, and then being hired by the Kellers. None of these things is easy, but she finally bre...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A gray silhouette of a child in a dark room opens this latest addition to the exemplary line of comic strip biographies from the Center for Cartoon Studies. Cartoonist Lambert employs three pages of such panels to show the child, Helen Keller, eating with her hands while a pair of tentacle-like blue arms forces her into a chair, trying -- and failing -- to persuade her to use a spoon. At intervals throughout the book, the silhouettes return to give a sense of how H...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A silhouette of a child in a dark room opens this latest in the exemplary line of comic strip biographies from the Center for Cart...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Focuses on the early history and education of Helen’s teacher, Annie Sullivan, an aspect of the Helen Keller story not frequently told. Joseph Lambert’s illustrations ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More