One TV Blasting and a Pig Outdoors - Hardcover

Abbott, Deborah; Kisor, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807560758 ISBN 13: 9780807560754

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 1994

Synopsis

What’s it like to have a deaf father? As Conan explains, it’s not so different but it’s always interesting. Conan tells how his father Henry Kisor learned to read and speak, made his way through regular” schools, and grew up to be a newspaper editor and author. Conan also describes the challenges of lipreading and the technological advances that have made communication easier for his dad.

About this title

About the Author

Abbott is an Albert Whitman author.

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-5-In a positive, upbeat manner, a boy tells about what it's like to have a deaf father. Lipreading, sign language, discrimination, TTY (teletypewriter), and other electronic means of communication are explained in the fictionalized narrative, and a two-page glossary is included. Humorous happenings and mishaps show a man who views deafness not as a handicap, but as a challenge, and lend immediacy to a topic that otherwise might not capture the interest of most children. Several full-page watercolors are interspersed throughout the text, but they don't extend the story. A book with a limited audience, but an acceptable addition where there is a need.
Virginia Opocensky, formerly at Lincoln City Libraries, NE
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0807560758
• ISBN 13: 9780807560754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Morrill Leslie