Helen Keller: Crusader for the Blind and Deaf

by Stewart Graff and Polly Anne Graff

Book Overview

From the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller could not hear. She could not see, and she did not speak. She lived in a dark and lonely world--until Annie Sullivan came to teach her. Annie traced letters and words in Helen's hand, and made Helen realize she could -talk- to people. Eager to make up for lost time, Helen threw herself into her studies. She decided to teach others about the special training deaf and blind children need. Helen traveled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440404398
• ISBN13: 9780440404392
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Helen Keller: Toward the Light

I gave this book a five star rating because of its excellence of discribing the life of Hellen Keller from when she was born to finally when she died. This book discribes what she did when she was blind and deaf. This book was about how smart Helen was when she was little although she was blind and deaf. Some important events were when a teacher named Annie taught her to read with her fingers.Her parents were in desperate of getting her a teacher so she can some what get to learn something and Annie ddi her job very well. Another one is when she also learned to spell by feeling the shape and texture of any object she got. The next on is when Helen knew enough words to spell she was capeable of asking questions. For example she asked "What do my mother, father and sister, and teacher look like?" She also learned how to count with wooden beads and straws. Lastly when Annie and Helen moved in together, because her family thet she had lived with had died, Helen and Annie stoped traveling to make their lecture trips which was caused by the the sad war news. When Annie, the teacher, had died Helen started recieving sympathy letters from strangers around the world. She soon started to give speaches and give help to the blind and the deaf. I thought this was a great book so i hope you do if you read this book. Enjoy! -Rachel*

Nice book

This book is very nice, I like how the illustrator drew the pictures.

Helen Kellen

The story is about a girl that is disabould. One day she got very mad at everybody. That she started it hit her little sister. And her mother and father. So her perents decided to call a special teacher. To help her get through all this anger. So the teacher that help Helen was Annie. Is not given up on disabould kids. Because just how Helen got through all of this she made is too. Where she could talk a couple of wards. That us people that are not disabould . Can say like water,spone. So think that's the theme. What I like about this book is that. It shows lots of love and care. I recommend this book to the whole world. Because it is a very good book to the disabould kids. Like Helen Keller. You can learn alot by this book.

almost perfect!

when i read this book, i though it was really good. helen went through a hard but good life.

it was the best book I've ever read in my whole life!

Better than anything I've ever seen