[NAGDU] books on guide dogs
Andrew J. LaPointe
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Tue Nov 1 17:58:33 UTC 2022
Thank you Buddy for the book articles. Andy and Leroy WD1Q
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Subject: Re: [NAGDU] books on guide dogs
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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>> 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.
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>> 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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