Helen Keller

Helen Keller, written by Margaret Davidson, is a scholastic biography that I read in the third grade when we did a unit where we studied Helen Keller. This book is both informative and inspiring. I vividly remember reading this book for school, and as I re-read it for this assignment, I became sure I would use it in a classroom for multiple reasons.

The book has many benefits, in addition to the information it provides, it discusses a person who is different from us and shows us how they too can be "normal". One thing we want to project in our classrooms, is that everyone should be treated fairly no matter what their differences may be.

The book focuses, in addition to Helen, on Miss Annie Sullivan. Annie is the teacher that comes from Boston to help and teach Helen. Davidson does a wonderful job portraying the journey, triumphs, and hardships the two go through together. Something interesting the author does is to put certain feeling or emotional words in italics to really show readers the relationship the two had with one another, and what exactly they went through together. Overall, it is a wonderful story and this biography comes as close to doing the story of Helen, and her miracle working teacher, justice as I consider possible.