[nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: Guide dog book on BARD

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

Thank you for this Anna Lisa. 
I think for me, the book just wasn't plausible, the fire was dramatic
but I just didn't buy it. I could more easily relate to the girl in the
Single Candle series, plus for reasons I don't quite understand, her
blindness was plausible to me. 
Different tastes I guess. 


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Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 5:30 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: [nagdu] Guide dog book on BARD

Hi Rebecca,

I would agree with you about that, however Follow My Leader has
nostalgia 
value for a lot of us, at least it does for me.  I could relate to Jimmy
at 
the time since I was about his age when I read it, even though I knew
I'd 
never get a dog at my young age and that the story was pretty outdated.
So 
just for nostalgia's sake, I'm reading it again now and I'm at the point

where he's in class and has had his dog for a couple weeks.  Yeah, I 
remembered some details like the practical joke at breakfast on
Halloween 
(funny what memories carry over from childhood), but I'd forgotten that
the 
author really doesn't talk about the dog much other than to tell us he's
a 
shepherd and explain where his name came from, and some of the training.
But 
he doesn't tell us how Jimmy learns responsibility of caring for his dog
like 
parking him and such, at least not yet.  I remember reading Light a
Single 
Candle too and liking that one, but I never read the others in the
series.  
Will have to look for those on Bard.

AnnaLisa and Sundance

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