[NAGDU] books on guide dogs

Tue Nov 1 14:30:30 UTC 2022

I liked Cold Nose, too.  The author was a sociologist, and he talks about
attitudes towards blindness. They've changed a bit since then, but not as
much as I would hope.
Tracy

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			I liked My Eyes Have A Cold Nose, about a guy that
went blind and got a guide dog back in the 1940's. 

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I too was inspired by Follow My Leader, way back in the day.
I also enjoyed Triumph of the Seeing Eye, which follows a couple people and
a couple dogs up to and through class, with a bit of history at the
beginning, as I recall.  Things are different from how they are now, but the
students' motivations and struggles are the same. 
I also like Keep Your Head Up Mr. Putnam, which talks about how the author
lost his sight and trained with his first dog. 
And Love In The Lead talks a lot about the early history of guide dogs,
particularly The Seeing Eye.  It was the first in the US, and was the
pioneer here. 
And First Lady of The Seeing Eye, which talks about Morris Frank and Buddy,
the first official guide dog team in the US.  I remember it talks a lot
about what Morris had to do to get access in a country where dogs were not
allowed in a lot of places.  

I find a lot of people have no idea about the history of guide dogs, but
it's good to know where we came from, and I think it's interesting as well.
Tracy

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If you don't mind books generally for or about young people, here are a
couple.

Follow my leader
Written in 1957 I think. Doesn't name any specific school, but if you've
gone to a particular one you would recognize it by the street names. I read
this book when I was seven, and though at the time, I had no idea what blind
mobility and orientation was, I vowed right then that I would get one of
those guide dogs someday. I had cane mobility from eight grade through
graduating from high school, and my instructor knew I wanted to get a dog,
some in the last year, she helped me learn some transition skills from a
cane to a dog. I got my first dog, age 17, after high school, in 1975. All
that nonsense to say this book inspired me and I never gave up on that
dream. It also has a very positive view of blindness for the times.

Steve and the guide dogs
I don't know if this is available anymore, but this takes a different look
at things and is about a teenage boy raising guide dog puppies.

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Hi all,
Re-posting as I realized that I forgot to change the greeting.
Do any of you know of any books on/about guide dogs that you'd recommend?
Preferibly non-fiction; I know there are ones about the different schools
but I worry about current they are as things have likely changed. Just
curious; look forward to any recommendations that any of you can provide
me!! Thanks Madison _______________________________________________
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