The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski
Hardcover: 576 pages
Publisher: Ecco (September 19, 2008)
Edgar uses sign language to communicate. Louise Wilkes is a CODA and communicates using the Sign Language that her Deaf parents taught her. This character works with Deaf children and hearing children of Deaf parents. There is another secondary Deaf Character whom Edgar meets when he is four. The character communicates through Sign Language but also speaks. Edgar notes that he sounds funny (p. 49).
At Face Value (October 2008) by Emily Franklin
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Flux
Linus', a staff writer at the Word, has a father who is deaf. Linus teaches main character Cyrie sign language and the two use it throughout the book.
I encourage you to check out my Interview with Jean Ferris, author of the award-winning Of Sound Mind.This book is written by a CODA author......
The Silent Time by Paul Rowe (September 2007)
Publisher: Killick Press.
The deaf character, Dulcie attends the Halifax School for the Deaf in the early 1900s, similar to the author's late mother, Elizabeth Rowe. (This is one of my all-time favorite books!)
3 comments:
Your website (blog) is actually an important resource, not full of "hot air". I enjoy your work very much. More more, I see the clamor.
Thanks Charles. I try:)
Thanks, Sharon for the list of this books. I just wrote them down I'd like to try out!
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