An edition of Follow My Leader (1957)

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An edition of Follow My Leader (1957)

Follow My Leader

  • 4.50 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 40 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

A young boy blinded in an accident learns to overcome his disability with the help of a seeing eye dog.

Jimmy and the guys were playing around. Mike decides to light a giant firecracker. Jimmy yells for him not to and, reacting instinctively to the voice, Mike throws the firecracker at Jimmy. Jimmy ends up totally blind and feels helpless and isolated from his old friends. While he's knocking around, literally, with his red and white cane, his mother puts him on a list for a seeing-eye dog. He's never really wanted a dog at all and what good is a dog when he can't see to run and play with one?

Though he doesn't know it yet, life takes a turn for the better and he is accepted to the program. The first step is traveling to the school and meeting Leader, his "new eyes". He is still bitter till one of the other students says yeah it's bad getting blinded but how would you feel going through life knowing you blinded someone else? So we get a look at how Mike is feeling after the accident, too. Can they ever be friends again?

Along with Jimmy we learn how to use a cane, how to count money, cross streets, match clothes and navigate. You learn to slowly get out in the world again. And then you and Jimmy are matched with Leader and the world really opens up around you as you go through the seeing-eye dog training course and develop an appreciation for the amazing difference a dog partner makes in handling the challenges. The world has possibilities again and Jimmy learns to love Leader.

After reading this book I started donating to the seeing-eye dog schools while still in grade school because I was so impressed with how a dog could basically give a blind person their independence back. They also have a great program for kids/families that lets you raise and begin the training of the puppies for the school.

You get the answers to a lot of questions you probably never even thought of; like how do you cut up your food, how do you eat when you can't see your plate and how do you keep from walking into walls? I still use some of the things I learned from this book: how to count change in the dark, how to analyze traffic flow when visibility is poor, and how to match clothes if you're colorblind.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
187

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Cover of: Follow My Leader
Follow My Leader
1994-01-01, FollettBound
Cover of: Follow my leader
Follow my leader
1994, Puffin Books
in English
Cover of: Follow My Leader
Follow My Leader
September 1988, Scholastic, Scholastic Book Services
Paperback in English
Cover of: Follow My Leader
Follow My Leader
August 1987, Scholastic
Paperback
Cover of: Follow My Leader
Follow My Leader
August 1987, Tandem Library
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Follow My Leader
Follow My Leader: 2
Mar 22, 1976, Viking Juvenile, Brand: Viking Juvenile
hardcover
Cover of: Follow my leader
Follow my leader
1958, Scholastic
in English
Cover of: Follow my leader
Follow my leader
1957, Viking Press
in English

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New York, USA

First Sentence

"Gold is valueless until mined, oil is useless at the bottom of the well, and my slight talent would not have found expression but for the eyes, the encouragement, and the helpfulness of Martha Frilling, to whom this grateful tribute is tendered."

Edition Notes

An Apple Paperback

Copyright Date
1957

Contributors

Illustrator
Don Sibley

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
187 p., ill.
Number of pages
187
Dimensions
19.3 x 13.3 x 1.2 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7887455M
Internet Archive
followmyleader00jame
ISBN 10
0590424637
ISBN 13
9780590424639
OCLC/WorldCat
3991349
Library Thing
4269
Goodreads
2719674

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