One TV Blasting and a Pig Outdoors - Hardcover

Abbott is an Albert Whitman author.

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
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