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By: Gare Thompson (Author)
At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind….
Who Was Helen Keller?
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Price: $6.99 - $4.19
(as of Aug 12, 2024 17:33:27 UTC – Details)
By: Gare Thompson (Author)
At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind….
Jill S. –
Easy to understand and full of facts!
Really a fun read to share with my 12 year old! Book was easy to read and understand. Being completely honest, loved it myself! Generated curiosity in my 12 year old to learn more about Helen Keller and others mentioned in the book (Teacher and Mark Twain). Will be gifting more from the series for Christmas!
Deb –
Fabulous series for a fourth grader
Our granddaughter, Lucy, ten, and in fourth grade, just loves to read and learn. This series is fantastic! I send her a book or two ever few weeks and so many times it has turned out that she is learning in school about the person featured in the book I send. Just a few weeks ago it was Helen Keller and a few weeks later, Harriet Beecher Stowe. The books are interesting and educational. She loves them and so do I. I hope the authors never run out of people to feature in these most-wonderful books.
Elizabeth –
Fascinating!
This line of books are a great addition to any child’s library. I stumbled upon these books while searching for a book, with a children’s audience in mind, on The Beatles. I found one on The Beatles and so many more. This one in particular, on Helen Keller, is very good. I am almost finished reading it to my 5-year-old and I’m sure it is one he will want to read on his own in a few years. In doing so, I learned so much about Helen and Annie…in a word: remarkable. Definitely pick this one up, if you can! Enjoy!
Marianne Kaznica –
Perfect book for kids to be inspired and learn about positive role models
My granddaughter who is 8 loved reading The Who was series they are very informative..very inspiring, and perfect for her reading level. I only wish Amazon had every book in the series
Jacob Hantla –
Perfect for my Seven Year Old
My just-turned-seven daughter and I read this book together. She could read most all of it, but as she is just getting used to reading paragraph books we took turns. The book is very well written for this age group, giving enough details, but moving the story along to keep young minds paying attention. Helen Keller has such an incredible story, and I’m glad that my daughter could learn of it now.I particularly liked the little one-page interjection pages that summarized side topics like Braille or Alexander Graham Bell. These made for good summaries with some more detail of the things in the story without distracting from the flow.There are quite a few black and white drawings throughout that aren’t particularly good, but do a good job to help a young child visualize what they are reading. I’m looking forward to more of these “Who was/were” small biographies.
Author Groupie –
Great Read for Discussions about Overcoming Adversity
As mentioned in a previous post, my daughter and I (and now hub) are addicted to the Who Was/Is? series of young reader books. This past weekend while frozen in we read Gare Thompson’s Who Was Helen Keller?, illustrated by Nancy Harrison. I knew Keller was deaf and blind and that a devoted teacher, Annie Sullivan, was able, after much perseverance, to open the world to Keller. Yet, I had no idea of the numerous obstacles Sullivan and Keller conquered together until Sullivan’s death in 1936 as well as the history behind schooling for deaf children. Go Gallaudet!What amazed me probably more than anything else is how, in order for Keller to be able to learn at Radcliffe, Sullivan had to spell every lecture into Keller’s hand. Every lecture . . . Yet, their combined efforts prevailed, and Keller graduated from Radcliffe in 1904 with honors. What an amazing lesson to be learned by all less-than-motivated learners.HelenKellerquoteWhat amazed my eight-year-old daughter was how Keller had met every president from Cleveland to Kennedy.Not only an ideal chapter book to use in teaching students how to overcome adversity, but also ideal in discussions about interacting with people whom are different than ourselves. For in chapter 9, we learn, “The girls were friendly [at Radcliffe], but many did not know what to say or how to act around Helen” (87).Unfortunately, the English teacher within must mention the dreaded typo found on page 92, “The book also revealed Helen’s wonderful imagination ad [sic] how she pictured her world.” What is nice to note is that my squirt noticed the error, too, in her reading. Yesssssssssssssssss!Who Was Helen Keller? just may be a contender for my daughter’s next book selection for Book Club Babes as they will be exploring the biography genre.
cherie –
great book, easy read!
I loved reading about Hellen Keller when i was a child…. so in trying to find something for my son to read for school, i thought of my childhood. well, my son loved this book! its a struggle to get him to read and finished this book in less than 3 days. it was a quick read and it had a lot of ties to the boston area, where we live, so it made it more real for him. i truly recommend it for any middle school who hates to read.
Robert A. Smith –
It’s a good book.
My granddaughter started reading it and she says she loves it. And it is an interesting topic about a blind and deft person and that’s why she likes it. 5 stars you should get it.
MANJULA B S –
Very good biography for primary class children.
Venera –
Conoscevo la storia di Ellen Keller in italiano e ho voluto prenderlo in versione inglese per implementare il mio vocabolario. Peccato non abbiano dedicato alcune immagini alla Lis tattile, nel complesso positivo!
Cliente de Amazon –
Mi hija amo el libro, es un libro muy amigable, 100% para niños, muy bien explicado, con imágenes, blanco y negro, muy bien tamaño de letra. Definitivamente compraremos mas de esta colección. Un gran regalo para los niños amantes de biografÃas. El vocabulario en ingles es bastante amigable y fácil de comprender y al mismo tiempo una gran oportunidad para los niños de conocer mas palabras nuevas todos los dÃas.
Janete –
A história de Helen Keller é emocionante, pois ela ficou cega e surda quando criança e aprender a se comunicar com a ajuda de uma grande professora e o texto em inglês é razoavelmente fácil de entender.