[bksvol-discuss] Re: life stories of blind people

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:19:51 -0600

Hi Cindy,
Most bios and autobios about blind people tell about their early years.
Probably some do not go into a lot of detail about it though.

Sue S.





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From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:00 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: life stories of blind people


> I was wondering how many are children's books, about
> blind children's experiences, in school up to or
> through high school. A collection of tales of
> children. One of my favorite books as a youngster,
> which taught me a lot, was entitled Little Children
> Who Became Great. It was about the childhoods of such
> people as Jenny Lind, Florence Nightingale,  Rosa
> Bonheur, Queen Victoria, Leonard de Vinci, Belline (I
> think) Michaelangelo (I think--it was over 50 years
> ago), General Tom Thumb. The last paragraph or two
> said what happened to them as adults, but mostly it
> was about their childhood and their parents and their
> educaiton and their dreams.  That's the kind of book I
> was thinking about, having found the  stories here
> very interesting.
>
> Cindy
>
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