![]() ![]() ![]() A poignant episode I also remembered was when Helen starts using cards with words in raised letters and hides in a wardrobe.Īnnie had seen the wardrobe door swing as she came into the room. The author describes the weeks that Annie taught Helen to sign with Helen beginning to mimic her without comprehension until the fateful day when Annie signed W-A-T-E-R while pumping water onto Helen’s hand and Helen made the connection. What a coincidence that this bookmark awaited meĪt the New England Mobile Book Fair today! Annie Sullivan’s story – an intelligent but headstrong orphan – is vividly told from Annie’s misery in the poorhouse in northern Massachusetts when she loses her brother, her difficult but ultimately rewarding time at the Perkins School for the Blind (a mile from my old home in Watertown), and the fateful decision to travel an enormous distance (three days by train) from Boston to Alabama to teach a girl everyone had given up on except her mother. ![]() I am sure I found it at the John Ward School library and I hope the author got royalties - my copy is the 18th printing. My Impressions: This is an extremely memorable book that was very popular in its Scholastic paperback format when I was growing up. ![]()
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