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    Close Your Eyes
    Close Your Eyes
    Close Your Eyes
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    Close Your Eyes

    By Michelle Friedman and Nicole Fiddler

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    One little girl who plays, learns, and has fun is just the same as all her friendsexcept that she cannot see.

    As she invites her friends and readers to close their eyes and see what she sees, the girl builds blocks, makes puppets with her socks, climbs a tree, rides a bike, and plays tag. She is having so much fun growing up. She teaches everyone around her that even though she is blind, she still has abilities, hopes, and dreamseven if she may have to do things in a different way.

    Close Your Eyes shares delightful rhymes and engaging illustrations to foster an understanding of what is possible for disabled children while encouraging acceptance of differences.

    It is a hard concept for a young child to grasp that another child cant see, but your focus on the humanness and similarity between children keeps a balance.
    Audra Kaplan, PsyD, clinical psychologist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbbott Press
    Release dateNov 14, 2013
    ISBN9781458212160
    Close Your Eyes
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    Michelle Friedman

    Born in South Africa, Michelle Friedman lived in London, Jerusalem, USA. With a master's in education from the University of the Witwatersrand, she taught in schools, business colleges and university. Currently she writes poetry, short stories and assists others in using the spoken or written word as a means of emotional healing.

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