I Have a Sister--My Sister Is Deaf (Reading Rainbow Books)

by Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson

Book Overview

A young deaf child who loves to run and jump and play is affectionately described by her older sister. 'Can give young children an understanding of the fact that deaf children . . . share all the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064430596
• Release Date: May 1984
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

I'm Not Different!

This book is about a lovely book. Most of the book is about the deaf sister. She has long black hair and is short. One other one is the hearing sister. She also has long black hair and she is tall. The hearing sister is very responsible. Also she is very kind. They both look as if they have an Asian background. This takes place in school, a field and at home. One of the events that happened was when the deaf sister started to play the piano. She started to feel the vibrations of the keys. She just wanted to sing while she played only if she can hear it. All of the drawings are very artistic. They are descriptive. All of the pictures are in black and white. I loved how this book was about a deaf child. Also it shows how a deaf child lives. One of the things I would change is that to make the characters have names. This book also reminded me of my cousin because the picture in the book looks like her. I would please ask you to buy this book. One last thing this book would be most appropriate for ages 4 to 6.

People Shouldn't Be Ashamed!

This story is about a young deaf girl who is about 5 years old and who has an older sister who is around 12 years old. They both have long silky straight black hair. The best part of the book is that it had a lot of movement in the pictures. However, the pictures were black and white and some were shaded in. They had nice big backgrounds in the story too. I recommend this story for little kids between 6 and 8 years old. If you read this book you will find a lot of things you will like. This book reminds me of my great grandfather who is losing his hearing and it looks a lot like my house in the inside.

My Deaf Sister

This book takes place at two girls' house and at their school. One of the girls that can hear is older. The one that is deaf is only 5 years old. This book teaches kids to learn more about this great book and about deaf people. The pictures were in pencil. But were detailed. I like all the stuff about deaf people in it. I would change just one part when the 5 year old takes some pair of sun goggles off of her sister.

Reads aloud beautifully

I've read this book aloud to children ranging from 2nd to 5th grade, and with most of the classes it has stirred wonderful discussions. The book reads aloud beautifully, and encourages the children to think about what it would be like to be deaf. Some of them have 'full deaf' family members, and they shared their experiences in communicating with them. We often stopped during the reading to practice saying silently 'pajamas' and 'bananas,' to experiment with conveying emotions with our faces, and meaning with our eyes. The author writes about her sister, 'She is special. There are not many sisters like mine.' Well, there are not many books like this one. The writing would also make an excellent model for children to follow in writing about a family member or friend.

Deafness as experienced by a hearing sibling

I found this book to be very useful in talking about differences and believe that it CAN be a very useful tool in developing curricula around differences and treatment of people who are perceived as "different." Perfect? No, but nicely told through the eyes of a child.