description: The story of Helen Keller is well-known throughout the world, but few people know of Laura Bridgman. Also blind and deaf, she was the first to break the pattern of early nineteenth-century tradition, learning to read the alphabet and leading the way for others to be freed of their handicaps.
language: English
title: Child of the Silent Night
titlecomplete: Child of the Silent Night
genres: Classics, Historical, History, Childrens, Disability, Juvenile, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 122
publisher: William Morrow & Co