Is Annie up to this incredible challenge? Can she dare to dream of accomplishing a miracle? This is the true story of Annie's and Helen's courage and determination to succeed. To Annie falls the incredible task of teaching Helen how to read, to write - to live a full life. The world is a dark and silent prison for little Helen. Even though the odds were against her, she would never allow her handicaps to defeat her. All alone and half blind, she grew up in a poorhouse with only her pride and determination to sustain her.
For twenty- year- old Annie Sullivan, life had been one hardship after another. Curriculum Review: Top Secret Adventure and Which.I would have been terribly disappointed if she hadn't been enthralled! We have also read Helen Keller's story and watched both the Nest video and The Miracle Worker, but Helen Keller's Teacher is still my favorite. The girl with the scratchy eyes and terrible temper, the scenes in the poorhouse, her brother's tubercular hip-all those images were so familiar to me as I read the book to my daughter. I don't know why this story appealed to me more than the biography of Helen Keller herself, but it was always Annie Sullivan's story that I came back to again and again. I can think of no other book that I read so often in my childhood. I think it was about the 118th time in my life I've read this book about Annie Sullivan, and I still got all choked up. She could certainly have read it to herself, but I really wanted to share this one with her. I just finished reading this book by Mickie (Margaret) Davidson out loud to Laurel.
For her whole life had been dedicated to making Helen Keller free - free even of Teacher. "Then I would have failed," Annie snapped.
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