The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller

by Joan Dash

235 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2004

About the author

Joan Dash is a prizewinning author of biographies for young adults. Her early works, including A Life of One's Own: Three Gifted Women and the Men They Married, Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold, and The Triumph of Discovery: Women Scientists Who Won the Nobel Prize, participate in the growing movement to bring to light the achievements of notable women in history. In The Triumph of Discovery, for example, Dash puts the spotlight on four women who have won the Nobel Prize since 1960; at the time of the book's creation, only ten Nobels had ever been awarded to women, including two to Marie Curie. Dash was praised for clearly elucidating the nature of these scientists' contributions, as well as placing their personal and professional life experiences in the context of their times. Perhaps most importantly, "the author communicates the excitement and satisfaction of a life in science," remarked Zena Sutherland in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

Reviews

[Cyndy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this. I have read other books about both Helen Keller and Anne Sulivan, however this one painted a more real picture. It gave both the positive and negative aspects of their personalities. Toward the end it was a little redundent and I found myself wanting it to be done.

[Khadija · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ummm where do I start. Oh yes, Do you like real life people struggles that we have well none has the same struggle asHelen Keller read this book to read the life she lead, the struggles she overcame and still was happy and made no complaints b4 she died so chub on the hard times that you got and read this non fiction that made me want to finish it within hours