Joan Dash: The world at her fingertips

Scholastic Press

$15.95


The story of how blind and deaf Helen Keller learned to communicate with the world with hand signs, thanks to her extraordinary teacher Annie Sullivan, is enduringly famous, even though it happened more than 100 years ago.
But the story didn't end there. The incredible Keller followed her strong ambition to achieve as much as she could in the mainstream. She attended prestigious Radcliffe College, graduating cum laude, and embarked on a long life of lecturing, writing and giving interviews. She was a socialist, and an outspoken advocate of workers and women's rights. Hers is a story that will always bear retelling, and Dash does it competently, with with passion, emotional truth andnte a vivacious style which will sit well with the young adult readership at which this book is aimed