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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2012 | Fiction
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 Helen's world might have felt from the inside—dim, bewildering, ragef...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
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
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on April 1, 2012
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