Children’s book author, Nessa Morris has written her book, Reaching For Rainbows and shares with us her experience as a librarian for the visually impaired. The book is a story about a little blind girl named Angela and how she teaches her friend Betsy to see by using color. Using a color concept, Ms. Morris has expressed how the blind can see by relating color to visual objects. She explains her theory for the book by saying, “Many people use the terms low vision or visual impairment, instead of blindness, but I prefer to use the word “blind” in my book to show sighted people that there is a range of blindness. It’s not just that you can see or you can’t. There are degrees, and blindness isn’t necessarily as debilitating or scary as sighted people think. It’s just a different way of seeing or experiencing the world. In the same way that emotions have been associated with colors: blue with sadness, red with anger, or green with envy; blind people may have their own individual way of interpreting colors. Is sadness really blue? Why is it blue? Why not purple?”
Reaching For Rainbows is a children’s picture book both in paperback, available on her website, and as an enhanced ebook on utales.com. The ebook version is enhanced with musical sounds as an interactivity on the illustrations. Using a color concept, Ms. Morris has expressed how the blind can see by relating color to visual objects. The illustrations are by Caroline Lee.
Age Level: 2-4 years
Rating 4 stars ****
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