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Helen Keller was robbed of her sight, hearing and speech at an early age due to a childhood illness. Nevertheless, she overcame her disabilities with the love and tenacious teachings of her tutor Anne Sullivan and the encouragement of other individuals such as Alexander Graham Bell. This is the courageous story of one woman's amazing triumph of will over her impairments and the inspiring legacy she left behind. Join Astro Boy and his friends as they learn what it is like to live without something we take for granted everyday.
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Is anything more incongruous than a biography of Helen Keller introduced by superpowered robot Astro Boy? Yet the adaptation works better than it has any right to. The Edu-Manga series presents Astro Boy hosting graphic novels that recount the lives of such historical figures as Beethoven, Einstein and Anne Frank for young readers. While the framing sequences with Astro Boy are drawn in creator Osamu Tezuka's exaggeratedly cartoony style, Yagi's artwork for the biographical material is comparatively more realistic and considerably more dramatic. The book affectingly retells how Annie Sullivan taught the blind and deaf child Helen to communicate, a tale familiar from the play and film The Miracle Worker. Writer Yanagawa does not shy away from the darker aspects of the story, as when Helen attacks her baby sister, and follows the tale from Sullivan's breakthrough to Keller's subsequent triumphs in learning to speak and entering college, continuing to her two leading characters' deaths. Though occasionally heavy on the Hallmark sentiments, Yanagawa and Yagi capture Keller's inspiring tale with enough intelligence to make parents enjoy reading this book along with their children. (Dec.)
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Brings Helen Keller's story to life
2008/8/4
形式:ペーパーバック
I just read this book to my 5-year old daughter and she was hooked from beginning to end. I'm not sure that means this book is for kindergartners, but manga (Japanese comic books) in general tend to have a cinematic style that, at least in the case of Helen Keller's story, worked surprisingly well for reading aloud. Since I do not know much about Helen Keller I can't say whether this "Edu-Manga" gets the story 100% right, but I'll give the author and artist the benefit of the doubt of having strived for accuracy. Overall, it felt like I was learning something along with my daughter, so I presume most people new to Helen Keller's amazing story would benefit from reading it, especially book-averse teens (I personally have no problem with gaining information through comic books/graphic novels/manga), which is undoubtedly the Edu-Manga series' target demographic. I would have given the book 5 stars, but the translation at times retains too much in the way of Japanese modes of speech. For instance, the translator has the book's characters throughout the story call Helen Keller's assistant "Teacher" rather than "MIss Sullivan" or "Anne." As a student of Japanese I know that this is simply a direct translation of the word "sensei" (teacher), which is how Japanese people refer to teachers whether they know their name or not. Americans, though, do not speak this way, and that and other awkward translations give the dialogue a stilted feeling at times. Also, a quick look at the Wikipedia article on Helen Keller shows her to have been a brunette as a child, whereas the artist made her a typical blonde caucasian girl of the type found throughout the Japanese manga universe. Nonetheless, these are really quibbles, and if this and the other Edu-Manga help kids learn history, then they've done their job. Overall, a fine effort.
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