Keep Your Ear on the Ball
"This is a wonderful story! It's an inspiring example of how children are able to understand and respect differences in others—all on their own. This class used creativity and teamwork to include their classmate Davey in a game of kickball, and Davey learned that he can accept help from others and still remain independent."—Maria Runyan, educator and runner, the first legally blind athlete to compete in the Olympics"Keep your Ear on the Ballis utterly charming and true to life! How do you go to school with a classmate who is blind? The children work out the answer in a practical, satisfying way. What I especially like about the story is the personality that comes across in the "can-do" attitudes of Davey and his classmates—American inventiveness and practicality wins again. By the way, I know "Davey" today as an adult with a professional job, a wife, and children of his own. He is now helping blind students in his state to learn the can-do attitude that helped him so well when he was in Miss Petrillo's class."—Lorraine Rovig, National Federation of the Blind