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Post by hoosier on Mar 15, 2006 17:46:08 GMT -5
I remember reading a few books as a kid at my local library about guide dogs so I decided to check and see who wrote them---
1.Guide Dog by Dorothy Clewes-my personal favorite-about a young man who was blinded in an accident when a bomb went off in a package he was delivering (he didn't send the bomb ! It was a holiday job) A dog hit him and he dropped the package and it exploded. He blamed all dogs and so of course was very resistent to getting a guide dog ...
2.Skipper the Guide Dog by Arthur Bartlett c 1933
3. Inki by Elizabeth Heppner c 1957-about a boy who raises a dog in the 4-H project
I still happen to have a copy of Follow My Leader and Light a Single Candle that I bought while in school.
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Post by anna on Mar 15, 2006 18:04:17 GMT -5
I still happen to have a copy of Follow My Leader and Light a Single Candle that I bought while in school. I still have my old copies of Light a Single Candle and the sequel, Gift of Gold.  |
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Post by greenbeing on Mar 15, 2006 18:41:24 GMT -5
I still happen to have a copy of Follow My Leader and Light a Single Candle that I bought while in school. I remember Light a Single Candle! I think I read it in seventh grade while at our family picnic, and I was amazed at how many of my relatives had also read it. That book didn't speak very highly of glaucoma operations, so I was always kind of mad at the doctors. Anna, I didn't realize there was a sequel... Was it any good? Anyway, finished Bright Midnight last night around four in the morning. (No, it didn't take that long to read; took a break to roast hotdogs in the fireplace with my best friend.) I liked how Sam got personality later in the book, and the people he met along the way. Jim Knight and Hannibal Dumphries, especially. It's kind of frustrating that Hal (the Seeing Eye dog) was the only thing that made him independent, that without the dog, he probably never would have come into his own as a person. But good for Hal, anyway. They have several adventures that stand out, like the Blind Man's Party, and Where's Hal? chapters. Lots of little stories within the book that are never brought up again. Not great literature, but entertaining nonetheless. Did I dream it...? You know how you suddenly have this idea of a chapter, and you're not sure it was real? But I do think there was quite a large section pretty much from Hal the Dog's point of view. If there was, I thought it was pretty cute. If there wasn't, I apologize for getting your hopes up. So far I've reread the last page of the second edition, and the first two chapters. The first two chapters seem exactly the same. The last page (of which I'm still missing a page, anywhere from two words, to several paragraphs...) seems to flow better. They took out an analogy Sam had been making, and opened up the dialogue a little. --GB |
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Post by anna on Mar 16, 2006 8:01:21 GMT -5
Anna, I didn't realize there was a sequel... Was it any good? Since it must have been 30 years since I read the books, I looked at the blurbs on the covers to refresh my memory. I immediately remembered scenes from Light a Single Candle, but not from Gift of Gold, so the sequel must not have impressed me very much. |
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Post by awlrite4now on Mar 16, 2006 16:10:56 GMT -5
Follow My Leader was the first time I had ever read about someone dealing with blindness, and that was in the fourth grade. I recently bought a copy off amazon.com, and even though it's dated, it's still interesting. Anyone read "Granny Torelli Makes Soup"? A kid's book with a lot of heart. I just found a book I think I will order. www.lisafittipaldi.com/ |
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Post by inuvik on Mar 16, 2006 16:15:14 GMT -5
Sounds fascinating! Thank you. |
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Post by bjobsessed on Mar 16, 2006 16:53:15 GMT -5
I used to have Follow My Leader when I was a kid. It disappeared years ago, but I just bought it again. As Alice said, it is still good even though it's dated.
Although it's not a book to actually read, I just got a copy of Braille for the Sighted and it does a great job of giving an overview of of beginning braille as well as activities such as crossword puzzles to do in braille.
P.S. If you're interested in sign language, there are a whole lot of beginning books listed in the back like Animal Signs, Songs in Sign, Food Signs etc. All kid friendly if they're anything like this one.
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Post by Eyphur on Mar 16, 2006 23:24:07 GMT -5
I bought Follow my Leader at a used bookstore last week. Not in the best shap but whose gonna complain for a 25 cent book. I've read it before but it was nice to read again.
I've read braille for the sighted and it's an ok book. But I think I would have prefered to learn braille by trial and error with a book that is actually printed (embossed?) in braille. I did get one from the library last fall but I would get so tripped over the contractions that I eventally gave up.
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Post by greenbeing on Mar 20, 2006 18:27:36 GMT -5
I just finished The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. So far I've read that and Brighton Rock by him, and enjoyed both of them. They're very literary, so I don't know if anyone else would care, and I read Brighton Rock back in a college literature class, but the reason I mention it is because of the movie. I've never seen the movie of the The End of the Affair, but it has both Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore in it, and as we've had much discussion on the board about both of them recently, it might be worth a look. A dark love story--or is it hate...
--GB
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Post by shmeep on Mar 21, 2006 7:55:10 GMT -5
Anna, I didn't realize there was a sequel... Was it any good? Since it must have been 30 years since I read the books, I looked at the blurbs on the covers to refresh my memory. I immediately remembered scenes from Light a Single Candle, but not from Gift of Gold, so the sequel must not have impressed me very much. I remember that book! I read it once in high school, but I seem to remember it being pretty good--although I might have a different take on it as an adult. I seem to remember she became a speech pathologist or something like that. Interesting. |
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Post by greenbeing on Apr 1, 2006 16:36:08 GMT -5
I love having a library card  So I was looking at the local lib. to see what other Graham Greene books they had, and caught my eye on a book by Henry Green called Blindness. An oddish literary book. About this young man in England who goes blind. The book is set up three sections. The first was lovely. V. entertaining. Such a sprightly, enthusiastic, foppish fellow, full of ideas and combating boredom. The style changes extremely for the next two sections. The next section was very big into the "what now" aspect, where his whole world has just stopped. And as it was the early 1900's, there wasn't a lot out there for him. But it was very interesting, the theories he was throwing out on how a person becomes blind, as a state of being. There was one line that really stood out, about how being blind wasn't painful as long as one didn't try to put visuals to what was going on around one. There was a lot about how the physiology of thinking changes, when the input is no longer relying on the visual. Quite a bit about how the other characters dealt with him, and what was going through their minds, slipping almost into train of thought/stream of consciousness pattern. I was a bit disappointed with where it ended, but that's because I really really liked him as a unique character in the first section. So I would have really enjoyed a fourth section in London. --GB |
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So I was looking at the local lib. to see what other Graham Greene books they had, and caught my eye on a book by Henry Green called Blindness.