Who Was Helen Keller?

This is an excellent book for children who are intrigued by the inspiring story of Helen Keller. It provides valuable insights into her life, challenges, and remarkable achievements, making it a fantastic resource for young readers. Whether they're looking to deepen their understanding of her journey or need material for a school project or book report, this book offers a comprehensive and engaging perspective on Keller's enduring legacy.

Great book! It’s an easy read for my 8yr old son

My just-turned-seven daughter and I read this book together. She could read most all of it, but as she is just getting used to reading paragraph books we took turns. The book is very well written for this age group, giving enough details, but moving the story along to keep young minds paying attention. Helen Keller has such an incredible story, and I'm glad that my daughter could learn of it now. I particularly liked the little one-page interjection pages that summarized side topics like Braille or Alexander Graham Bell. These made for good summaries with some more detail of the things in the story without distracting from the flow. There are quite a few black and white drawings throughout that aren't particularly good, but do a good job to help a young child visualize what they are reading. I'm looking forward to more of these "Who was/were" small biographies.

Muy hermosa histori

As mentioned in a previous post, my daughter and I (and now hub) are addicted to the Who Was/Is? series of young reader books. This past weekend while frozen in we read Gare Thompson's Who Was Helen Keller?, illustrated by Nancy Harrison. I knew Keller was deaf and blind and that a devoted teacher, Annie Sullivan, was able, after much perseverance, to open the world to Keller. Yet, I had no idea of the numerous obstacles Sullivan and Keller conquered together until Sullivan's death in 1936 as well as the history behind schooling for deaf children. Go Gallaudet! What amazed me probably more than anything else is how, in order for Keller to be able to learn at Radcliffe, Sullivan had to spell every lecture into Keller's hand. Every lecture . . . Yet, their combined efforts prevailed, and Keller graduated from Radcliffe in 1904 with honors. What an amazing lesson to be learned by all less-than-motivated learners. HelenKellerquote What amazed my eight-year-old daughter was how Keller had met every president from Cleveland to Kennedy. Not only an ideal chapter book to use in teaching students how to overcome adversity, but also ideal in discussions about interacting with people whom are different than ourselves. For in chapter 9, we learn, "The girls were friendly [at Radcliffe], but many did not know what to say or how to act around Helen" (87). Unfortunately, the English teacher within must mention the dreaded typo found on page 92, "The book also revealed Helen's wonderful imagination ad [sic] how she pictured her world." What is nice to note is that my squirt noticed the error, too, in her reading. Yesssssssssssssssss! Who Was Helen Keller? just may be a contender for my daughter's next book selection for Book Club Babes as they will be exploring the biography genre.

As a former teacher, I love gifting books from this series to friends and family with children. This was an easy to read book that told the powerful story of Helen Keller.

Exactly as described. Nice product. Happy customer.

My 8yo did a Wax Museum project on Helen Keller. This book was very helpful.

A história de Helen Keller é emocionante, pois ela ficou cega e surda quando criança e aprender a se comunicar com a ajuda de uma grande professora e o texto em inglês é razoavelmente fácil de entender.

Conoscevo la storia di Ellen Keller in italiano e ho voluto prenderlo in versione inglese per implementare il mio vocabolario. Peccato non abbiano dedicato alcune immagini alla Lis tattile, nel complesso positivo!

I love this series! They are great, easy-to-read, fact based biographies that my children have grown up with. Sacagawea was our first book because of my daughter's obsession and from there we moved to other strong historical women, such as Helen Keller and Amelia Earhart. Then we would find subjects to correspond with whatever my kids were studying in school. Very nice series!

This series is an excellent introduction to biography, a genre many will not have considered at an “early age”. They are well-researched, written well and select some very inspirational and interesting people. As with many books, I recommend that parents should read (or skip-read) them first to ensure they are prepared for the facts involved and their answers to questions. This lady’s physical attributes may not have been considered by most children and her response to them will surprise many children. Very thoughtful.

Very good biography for primary class children.