[accessibleimage] Re: "Sadie Can Count": A review by Robert Jaquiss

Hi Robert and Ann too
How are the images processed.  You say the pages are made from paper - how
is the embossing done?  The pictures look really great on the website - very
clear and uncluttered - a great advance in the manufacture of tactile
images.
Ann Gardiner


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Sunday, June 04, 2006

"Sadie Can Count": A review by Robert Jaquiss

A new tactile book for children is now available: Sadie Can Count, story and
illustrations by Ann Cunningham. An accomplished artist who creates and
sells tactile art, Ann currently teaches art at the Colorado Center for the
Blind. Among her most widely known works is a set of five panels in bas
relief, each tactile piece depicting Erik Weihenmayer's climb up Mount
Everest. Displayed on five easels for easy touching and viewing, the set is
on display in the Jacobus tenBroek Memorial Library at the National
Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute.

Sadie is Ann's first tactile book, and is the result of three years of
careful research and feedback from blind children, blind adults, parents,
and teachers. There are several interesting and useful features not commonly
found in children's books. The text is produced in both Braille and print.
The illustrations are both tactile and printed in full color, therefore, it
will be useable and enjoyed by both those who are blind and those who are
sighted. As the book has a hard cover and the pages are of heavy paper, this
book should last, even with a child reading it many times.

I found the Braille and tactile illustrations are of excellent quality. It
might be described as a "bridge" book for tactile development as it bridges
the gap between the feel of "real" objects and those same objects depicted
in a raised, textured format on paper. A "Parent/Teacher Guide" with
specific suggestions for Ann's book is posted on the publisher's Web site
at: <www.sensationalbooks.com/>. The "Guide" states Sadie Can Count, a
multi-sensory book, would work "as an introduction to counting, as an
introduction to print and/or Braille, as an introduction to colors and
rhythm, and as an introduction to picture recognition both visually and
tactually."

Sadie Can Count can be purchased from Sensational Books, 

P. O. Box 261085, Lakewood, Colorado 80226; or online at 

www.sensationalbooks.com

for $29.95 through PayPal; telephone: (303) 238-4760. (ISBN 0-9770054-8-8)

Other Web sites with information or data on Cunningham and/or her book: 

http://www.oooandeye.com/artbase/base_members/ann_cunningham/pages/about.htm
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http://www.nfb.org/fr/fr20/fr05ci09.htm 
www.SensationalBooks.com 
http://www.freelists.org/archives/accessibleimage/01-2006/msg00049.html


http://www.nfb.org/fr/fr21/fr06ws10.htm

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