Harriet's Chariot: La Carroza de Rosa

ISBN-13: 9781542979177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 36 str.

Dr Leonora M. Cohen; Fernanda Miguel Godinez Zuniga

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Harriet's Chariot is about a little girl who is in a terrible accident and has to use a wheel chair. When she returns to school after a long period in the hospital, she is teased and bullied about her injured legs. The story focuses on how she overcomes this problem with the help of her teacher and her mother. A contest is set up for the students, challenging them to move the wheel chair as quickly as they can from start line to finish line, their times recorded on a chart by the teacher. This helps classmates recognize how hard it is to move oneself in a wheel chair. Even the bully acknowledges Harriet's (Rosa's) wheelchair as a chariot of fire, as she goes so fast The story is bilingual, written in English and Spanish. The illustrations by Fernanda Miguel Godinez Zuniga, a student at EEESMA, a school for the deaf in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, captures the story in a charming and refreshing way, allowing the reader to make sense of the second language through the pictures. For deaf students, Mexican Sign Language is their first language, Spanish is their second, and English is third. All proceeds from this book benefit the Escuela de Educacion Especial San Miguel de Allende (EEESMA), the school for deaf children, which makes such a huge difference in these students' lives.