Ever wish you could do something to make sighted people just
get it? What would it take to create a quantum shift in the level of fear,
pity, low expectations and negativity regularly displayed by the sighted world?
Try giving them a good story for the holidays, like The Heart of Applebutter
Hill by Donna W. Hill.
An adventure-mystery for general audiences, it features a 14-year-old legally blind heroine. The Heart of Applebutter Hill is not a "coming-to-terms-with-blindness story." The adventure could have happened to a sighted kid. If the author, who was born legally blind, had been willing to write blindness out of the story, she wouldn't have had to self-publish it.
The Heart of Applebutter Hill has received recommendations from professionals in the fields of education, rehabilitation and the arts as a valuable resource for diversity-inclusivity and anti-bullying initiatives in colleges and secondary schools. Recommenders include Louisiana School for the Blind Braille teacher and author Jerry Whittle, NFB Writers' Division President and Chair of the NFB's Communications Committee Robert Leslie Newman, Future Reflections editor and novelist Deborah Kent Stein and web accessibility expert Dr. Brian Wentz. You can read their comments at:
http://donnawhill.com/recommenders-of-the-heart-of-applebutter-hill-from-professionals-in-education-rehabilitation-the-arts/  
An adventure-mystery for general audiences, it features a 14-year-old legally blind heroine. The Heart of Applebutter Hill is not a "coming-to-terms-with-blindness story." The adventure could have happened to a sighted kid. If the author, who was born legally blind, had been willing to write blindness out of the story, she wouldn't have had to self-publish it.
The Heart of Applebutter Hill has received recommendations from professionals in the fields of education, rehabilitation and the arts as a valuable resource for diversity-inclusivity and anti-bullying initiatives in colleges and secondary schools. Recommenders include Louisiana School for the Blind Braille teacher and author Jerry Whittle, NFB Writers' Division President and Chair of the NFB's Communications Committee Robert Leslie Newman, Future Reflections editor and novelist Deborah Kent Stein and web accessibility expert Dr. Brian Wentz. You can read their comments at:
http://donnawhill.com/recommenders-of-the-heart-of-applebutter-hill-from-professionals-in-education-rehabilitation-the-arts/  
The
holiday shopping season is upon us, and you have a great opportunity to
influence public opinion, support a blind author and share an exciting
adventure-mystery. The proceeds from The Heart of Applebutter Hill
provide Braille books for blind students.
Throughout history, from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Oliver Twist to Roots & Children of a Lesser God, fiction has played a major role in enlightening the general public about social justice issues.,. The privacy and intimacy inherent in reading will provide a safe place for people to confront their own prejudice and to develop an intuitive understanding that blind people have valuable and unpredictable contributions to make in all aspects of life, as employees, students, co-workers, citizens and friends.
Below is information on print, eBook and accessible versions, along with a brief author bio. Please share this any way you can, and tell us what you think at:
http://DonnaWHill.com
Throughout history, from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Oliver Twist to Roots & Children of a Lesser God, fiction has played a major role in enlightening the general public about social justice issues.,. The privacy and intimacy inherent in reading will provide a safe place for people to confront their own prejudice and to develop an intuitive understanding that blind people have valuable and unpredictable contributions to make in all aspects of life, as employees, students, co-workers, citizens and friends.
Below is information on print, eBook and accessible versions, along with a brief author bio. Please share this any way you can, and tell us what you think at:
http://DonnaWHill.com
Accessible
versions of The Heart of Applebutter Hill for readers with print
disabilities:
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/639304
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/639304
Print Versions
Available
in print from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1483948226
http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1483948226
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eBook versions including .epub (Blio, Apple, etc), .mobi (Kindle), .pdf &
.rtf are available from Smashwords:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/313071?ref=DonnaWHill
Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNG6DDM
Nook:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-heart-of-applebutter-hill-donna-w-hill/1115426305?ean=2940016415000&itm=1&usri=2940016415000
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/313071?ref=DonnaWHill
Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNG6DDM
Nook:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-heart-of-applebutter-hill-donna-w-hill/1115426305?ean=2940016415000&itm=1&usri=2940016415000
Accessible Versions
Thank you for posting this. My apologies for not thanking you earlier; my hubby's been in and out of the hospital a lot in past 6 months -- being treated for neuro-Lyme disease.
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