[NAGDU] books on guide dogs

Tue Nov 1 15:34:09 UTC 2022

Follow my leader is a very special book to me. It was the very first talking book that I ever got when I was eight years old in 1961. When I got the bard App for my iPhone, it was the very first book that I downloaded.

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> On Nov 1, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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