Re: Discussing a book about Dwarfism in class

[Guest guest]

The teacher of my daughter's kindergarten class read the book Thinking

Big (which we fortunately had) to her class and told us she had a very

positive response from the kids. My daughter also brought in her LPA

lifetime membership certificate and card and showed it to the class

during show and tell. Although this book is not in print anymore, many

libraries do have it. Perhaps, the book should be xeroxed and made

available at the national and regional meetings.

Marcie

On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 07:02 PM, HelenJW@... wrote:

> Another suggestion is for someone who has a child with dwarfism bring

> in a

> book about dwarfism and have it read in class and discuss it.

>

> Helen

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>

>

[Guest guest]

" Thinking Big " is back in print, but now it's bundled into one book with

" Mine for a Year " . It's available at Amazon for $13.95. Do a search on

" Kuklin " and it will come up as one of the choices. Don't forget to enter

Amazon from LPA Online! )

Vita

At 11:48 PM 9/1/03 -0400, Levine wrote:

>The teacher of my daughter's kindergarten class read the book Thinking

>Big (which we fortunately had) to her class and told us she had a very

>positive response from the kids. My daughter also brought in her LPA

>lifetime membership certificate and card and showed it to the class

>during show and tell. Although this book is not in print anymore, many

>libraries do have it. Perhaps, the book should be xeroxed and made

>available at the national and regional meetings.

>

>Marcie

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/1/03 11:49:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

strausslevine@... writes:

> Although this book is not in print anymore, many

> libraries do have it. Perhaps, the book should be xeroxed and made

> available at the national and regional meetings.

>

>

I think that is a good idea. Unfortunately it was a challenge for my library

to get Matt's Against Tall Odds book. It took them to loan it from somewhere

else since they are the least funded library in land. They have some

books on dwarfism, but not many. I think in both the public and school

libraries

these books on dwarfism should be available which is helpful for the

teachers, students and for ones that have dwarfism or know someone that does.

If someone doesn't personally know anyone with dwarfism how are they supposed

to learn if there is no information such as books available for them to find

out?

Helen