[bookshare-discuss] Wish list requests
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:55:58 -0400
These sound really good.
All are nonfiction.
Your Treasure Hunt: Disabilities And Finding Your Gold By Katherine
Schneider, PhD. Beaver's Pond Press, 2010. Hardcover, 28 pages,
$18.95.
ISBN 1592983200 (hardcover).
Here's a warm and honest portrayal of the treasure hunt of getting
through life for young children with disabilities to enjoy with an
adult. All children face obstacles on their lives' treasure hunts.
However, there are difficulties for children with disabilities that
other children don't experience (such as working extra hard on normal
tasks, being teased, and gaining the courage to ask for help).
Constructive ways of dealing with the frustrating parts of having a
disability are featured in this book, as well as techniques for
building a positive self image. This book emphasizes that all children
can find both small and big treasures on their lives' treasure hunts.
A resources section gives suggested books and websites for parents and
caregivers.
C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark by Ryan Knighton
250 p. Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2010.
ISBN 030739669X (hardcover).
C'mon Papa is Ryan Knighton's heartbreaking and hilarious voyage
through the first year of fatherhood. Becoming a father is a
stressful, daunting rite of passage to be sure, but for a blind
father, the fears are unimaginably heightened. Ryan will have to find
novel ways to adapt to nearly every aspect of parenting: the most
basic skills are nearly impossible to contemplate, let alone master.
And how will Ryan get to know this pre-verbal bundle of coos and burps
when he can't see her smile, or look into her eyes for hints of the
person to come?
But this is no pity party, and Ryan has no time for sentimentality.
Tackling these hurdles with grace and humour, Ryan is determined to do
his part - and this is where the fun starts. From holding his daughter
as she wails into the night to their first nerve-wracking walk to the
cafe, no activity between father and daughter is without its pitfalls.
In his struggle to "see" Tess, Ryan reimagines the relationship
between father and child during that first chaotic year.
Adult autobiography.
Trust the dog: rebuilding lives through teamwork with man's best friend by
The Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation with Gerri Hirshey.
xii, 207 p. New York : Viking, 2010.
ISBN 0670021512 (hardcover).
Adult non-fiction.
Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side
by Susan Krieger
xii, 205 p. West Lafayette : Purdue University Press, 2010. ISBN
1557535574 (hardcover).
Adult autobiography.
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are
all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and
not to one particular color or border. -Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General
of the International Atomic Energy Agency (b. 1942)
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