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Helen Keller: The World in Her Heart

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Helen Keller: The World in Her Heart

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This evocative portrait of Helen Keller focuses on the developing relationship of the courageous young girl and her dedicated, loving teacher, Annie Sullivan, who taught her a new way to experience the world.

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ISBN-13:	9781430130109
Publisher:	Live Oak Media
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Series:	Live Oak Media eReadalong
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	11 MB
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Age Range:	5 - 9 Years

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Lesa Cline-Ransome is an award-winning author, who lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York with her husband. Lesa's books have received numerous honors including NAACP Awards, Kirkus' Best Books, ALA Notable, and many more.

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K-Gr 4
Keller's story has been told countless times, so Cline-Ransome wisely keeps her focus tight, showing the developing relationship between Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. The story opens with the sensory sensations of Helen's world: the feel of the warm spring breeze, the smell of a baking cake. A brief flashback explains the illness that left her deaf and blind, and the subsequent lack of communication that rendered her a wild and unmanageable child. Then the narrative transitions back to the moment when Sullivan enters her life and expects something more from her: an ability to learn. Told from Helen's point of view, the book takes readers from her dislike of this demanding stranger who continuously traces shapes in her palm, to her revelatory moment by the water pump, and finally to the realization that "Teacher" loves her. The author has chosen evocative details from Keller's life (she could feel "the jostle of the bumps along the road, but she couldn't see where they were going"). Some projection of thoughts necessarily happens, particularly in portraying the pre-lingual Helen, but Cline-Ransome is able to match the spirit of Keller's autobiographical writings. James Ransome cites John Singer Sargent as his inspiration for his bright, handsome paintings. An excellent, accessible introduction to a fascinating woman.-Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD

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Young Helen Keller cannot hear, see or speak, but she knows the scent of vanilla cake coming out of the oven, the feel of her mother's fancy silk dress and that the dog is tense because the horses are outside. A stranger arrives, one who traces shapes into her hand, each day, all the time. Helen finally connects these shapes with meaning, and spells "w-a-t-e-r" back to her teacher. She learns quickly, even telling the flowers apart by texture and scent, until she can spell, and define, the love that connects her to her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Ransome's sunlit colors and warm textures indoors and out make an excellent visual counterpoint to the rhythmic text, though too often they do not capture the young Keller's glowing beauty. More problematic from a nonfiction standpoint is the textual interpolation of Helen's thoughts as she puzzles out the world, but the device works well to evoke her shuttered-in world to sighted and hearing children. A nice introduction to a fascinating life for the very youngest of readers. (Picture book. 5-8)

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