[NAGDU] books on guide dogs

Tue Nov 1 15:43:22 UTC 2022

Never read that one, amazingly, but here’s a zip of some historical things, most of which came from the Seeing Eye’s site from when this stuff was posted there around 1997. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4e085co43jufp4/dogbooks.zip?dl=1

All plain boring text. 

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> On Nov 1, 2022, at 11:34 AM, Jody ianuzzi via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> 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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>> Subject: [NAGDU] books on guide dogs
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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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