I really enjoyed this book. Helen Keller has always been someone who I have thought of as an extremely influential person. I like how the book gives a great overview of Helen Keller's life in words that are easy to understand for a wide age range of audiences. I also enjoyed the illustrations in this book. They did a great job accompanying what was being said by the author on each page, making the book easy to understand. I also like how although this book is a biography, there were not too many dates or statistics in the book. Sometimes I feel that biographies are overloaded with this type of information which can make it less enjoyable to read. This book did not include this which made it a lot more approachable. I also really enjoyed the message of the book which primarily served to explain Helen Keller's life, and highlight how Keller overcame many of her adversities. She was able to do things that she once thought were impossible. Keller's story also encourages people everywhere who have hearing or sight impairments to dream big and realize that they are able to accomplish so much. ( )

I found this book to be quite enjoyable. The main idea in this biography of Helen Keller is to never give up and push through your challenges. I believe that this is an important story. Helen Keller had to struggle through many hardships and is shown in a wonderful way how she overcame them in a way that young readers can understand. Helen was outcasted most of her earlier childhood, she was angry all the time and one teacher made the difference. She learned how to sign and was able to finally communicate. She showed so much determination and this shows the readers that really anything is possible. I also enjoyed the illustrations, while they are not a critical part of the book they add powerful visuals. ( )

Helen Keller was a beautiful healthy baby. But when she was almost two years old she got very sick. After that sickness she became deaf and blind. She struggled a lot but with Annie Sullivan’s help she was able to behave better and learn so much. Helen Keller became an inspiration to many people. I love reading about Helen Keller because she is such a wonderful woman who had courage and overcame so many obstacles in her life. Also, I love this book can be used to show kids about important people in our history. ( )

I really enjoyed this book for many reasons. The main ideas of this book are that you should never give up and always persevere over your challenges. I feel as thought this is a really important story. It beautifully shows the hardships that Helen Keller had to overcome, but on a sizable reading level. Throughout most of her early childhood, Helen was basically an outcast and very angry all the time. Once her teacher was in the picture everything changed. She was able to learn to sign and finally communicate with other people. This shows the reader that with determination anything is possible. I really enjoyed the illustrations in this book. Even though they are not crucial to the story, they provide a sometimes-powerful visual. ( )

Young Helen Keller could not see or hear, making her blind and deaf, but she enjoyed helping people in her life. By the age of two, she became very sick. She also couldn't talk, so she had no way of communicating her feelings with others. Her parents took her to see Dr. Alexander Graham Bell for help; at the time, he was in charge of a school for the deaf. He helped Helen by teaching her how to communicate with her fingers, by sign language. A lady named Annie Sullivan helped change Helen's life by teaching her how to learn words by using her hands. She later learned how to read and write in Braille, and learned to speak when she was a teenager. Helen went to college, and spent her life helping out the blind and the deaf. I enjoyed reading this book, because I have friends who sometimes communicate using sign language. It made me think about not taking life for grandit, and to be thankful that I'm not blind or deaf. This book would be good to teach in a classroom cause and effects of being blind and deaf. If I were a special education teacher, I would definitely use this book, and help my students learn more about disabilities that we sometimes are faced with in life. ( )