Saturday, January 06, 2007
Book Review - Moses Goes to a Concert. - Picture Book
Pure enjoyment and smiles were the gifts from Issac Millman’s Moses Goes to a Concert. Millman successfully treats the topic of deaf children without bias or prejudice and matter of factly presents to the reader the signing method of communication among deaf people who are educated in its art. In taking his fictitious characters to a symphony concert where they can “feel” the music vibrate through their balloons he permits the reader to realize that the deaf have the ability to enjoy music albeit hearing impaired. And how pleasant that among the musicians there was a deaf percussionist. Not unusual when one considers some of the finest symphonies were written by a deaf piano (percussionist) player.
Millman falls short in only on area. He assumes all children who are deaf are educated in the art of sign. I have always wondered why the Native American sign language was abandoned for American sign language, but I suppose it had something to do with politics as usual.
Millman falls short in only on area. He assumes all children who are deaf are educated in the art of sign. I have always wondered why the Native American sign language was abandoned for American sign language, but I suppose it had something to do with politics as usual.
# posted by Bite Me Kissimmee @ 2:16 PM 
