[blindkid] Children's books addressing blindness, or featuring blind characters

[Melissa Green]

A cane in her hand is a really good book.  Not sure of the author.
Another one is mandy sue day.
Will look through my prior lists of things from my ed classes and see what I 
can find.


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Warmly,
Melissa Green
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather" <craney07 at rochester.rr.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 6:08 AM
Subject: [blindkid] Children's books addressing blindness,or featuring blind 
characters


> Ok, so I am creating a literacy kit for my EDU200 class and I could use 
> some suggestions.  We are to select a book for pre-school aged kids, 
> develop games, art projects, other similar activities that appeal to as 
> many of gardiner's multiple intelligences as possible, and a teachers' 
> guide for the book and activities.  I was hoping to find a book that 
> didn't teach about blindness, as even very small children can tell when 
> they are being preached and lectured at, but rather one that features a 
> blind character, prefferably a blind child character.  They can be the 
> main character or just a secondary character.  The important thing is that 
> the depiction be accurate, not condescending, not "In your face 
> educational" and that the book have a plot and a story, not just a series 
> of facts.  I searched for three hours last night on the internet with my 
> fiance's help, and neither of us could find any descent books.  They all 
> had seriously sstigmatizing, and often inaccurate depictions of blindness, 
> in a "This is what blindness is, this is what blind people are like, this 
> is a guide dog, this is a cane and this is braille, the end." format.  I 
> want more of a "Blah blah blah, beginning of story, introduce blind 
> character, kid who just happens to be blind, blabity blabity blabity 
> development of all characters and a plot line, yadda yadda yadda, wrap up 
> story that has nothing to do with blindness, but rather some other issue 
> important to or of interest to kids, but with a blind protagonist, or even 
> antagonist.  Blind kids are no more always little angels than are sighted 
> kids.  I hope someone knows what I mean.  Not having found a decent book 
> like this I can't even offer up examples of what I would like.  Any 
> reccomendations would be appreciated.  Thanks much.
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