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Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound
Blue Marlin Publications
Advance Praise for Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound
Everyone who sees a Seeing Eye Dog in action wonders about the dynamic between dog and human being, and now Beth Finke reveals all the intelligence, caring, and love that goes into this unique partnership by letting a dog, Hanni, tell her story. The pairing of Finke's clear and animated writing with LeTourneau's precise and expressive illustrations perfectly reflects the lively relationship between proud and responsible Hanni and proud and intrepid Beth, not only showing young readers how remarkable Seeing Eye Dogs are, but also how a person without sight can live a full, creative, and pleasurable life.
-- Donna Seaman, Booklist editor, and author of Writers on the Air
Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound is the story of how Beth, who is blind, travels safely around the city--to work, shopping, even to baseball games--with the help of Hanni, a specially-trained Golden/Labrador Retriever. It's a touching tale of mutual devotion and teamwork.
Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound includes factual information about how Hanni was raised and
trained, how Beth and Hanni learned to work together as a team, and what it's like to be blind.
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Long Time, No See
University of Illinois Press, 2003
"To face extraordinary challenges with grace and courage is remarkable in itself. To write about it as eloquently as Beth Finke does is a gift."
-- Jean Thompson, author of Who Do You Love, Wide Blue Yonder and City Boy
Long Time, No See is certainly an inspiring story, but Beth Finke does not aim to inspire. Eschewing reassuring platitudes and sensational pleas for sympathy, she charts her struggles with juvenile diabetes, blindness, and a host of other hardships, sharing honestly her feelings of despair and frustration as well as her hard-won triumphs. Rejecting the label "courageous," she prefers to describe herself using the phrase her mother invoked in times of difficulty: "She did what she had to do."
With unflinching candor and acerbic wit, Finke chronicles the progress of the juvenile diabetes that left her blind at the age of twenty-six as well as the seemingly endless spiral of adversity that followed. First she was forced out of her professional job. Then she bore a multiply handicapped son. But she kept moving forward, confronting problems and perservering through a rocky training period with a Seeing Eye dog.
Finke's life story and her commanding knowledge of her situation give readers a clear understanding of diabetes, blindness, and the issues faced by parents of children with significant disabilities.