When Helen Keller was six years old, she lived in dark silence. For she was blind and deaf. She couldn’t speak because she couldn’t hear. She cried without knowing why she was crying. She never laughed.

Then she met Annie Sullivan.

This is the moving story of Helen’s triumph over her handicaps — told so that early readers will appreciate it. Margaret Davidson, the author of Helen Kellers Teacher, writes simply, but with an acute sense of what young children find meaningful. In this book, she focuses on Heler Keller’s early years, recreating her strange childhood world and the education that so dramatically enlarged it. As young readers react with Helen to each new experience, they will feel the wonder of life itself.

From the dust jacket of the 1971 Hastings House edition