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]]> male 3899622 0553806882 9780553806885 109 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223317522m/3899622.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3899622.Hands_of_My_Father_A_Hearing_Boy_His_Deaf_Parents_and_the_Language_of_Love 4.12 231
“Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?”

Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face.

Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English—and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn.

Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. These two remarkable people married and had children at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression—an expression of extraordinary optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience they were able to summon at even the darkest of times.

From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties.]]> 150802 4.12 270 121 956581 1561453293 9781561453290 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179792923m/956581.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/956581.Dad_Jackie_and_Me 4.00 23 150802 4.12 270 121 696648 1561452211 9781561452217 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177357268m/696648.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/696648.The_Printer 4.33 9 150802 4.12 270 121 258007 1561452947 9781561452941 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173210314m/258007.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258007.Flying_Over_Brooklyn 4.67 3 150802 4.12 270 121 2912157 0670896349 9780670896349 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2912157.Mad_Dog_McGraw 4.00 2 Lydia Monks's paint and color montage illustrations are quirky and deliberately flat-looking, with photographic bits of real denim, leaves, leopard-print, and lettering blended into the wonderful paintings. Mad Dog's tail is nothing more than a wiry bent line, and on each page, the spot around his eye has a different white-on-black newsprint fragment. For every dog lover, there's another person who hates and fears man's best friend. Thanks to Myron Uhlberg and Monks, the world need not seem a dangerous, fang-ridden place anymore--Mad Dog McGraw is a sweet pup at heart, longing only for a playmate and a little affection. (Ages 4 to 7) --Emilie Coulter

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