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Book ReviewsOne Child |
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Book: One Child
Written by: Torey L. Hayden |
Publisher: Avon
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Grab a tissue, you will need it.
Rating:
5 / 5
This book is one that will tear at your heart and make you realize a how strong a child's determination to survive can be. It was on a list of required reading for one of my courses. I think that anyone that has an urge to work with children, should read this one. I think that this book is proof that to be a teacher, to be a good teacher, you will fall in love with all the children in your class. You have make the classroom their safe place where they are not scared, you have to show you care.
I just finished it and I am still weepy eyed and in awe of the little girl in the book to have gone through so much in all her 6 years, and have to be so strong.
Personally..
Rating:
4 / 5
I found value in the reviewer who related the history of the eugenics movement to the gifted child movement. However, we're all biased. Perhaps the issue was that if Sheila wasn't gifted she may have been institutionalized. I seldom read books cover to cover for various reasons of time and life situations. I was hell bent however at being a social worker or something of that nature at one point, and I ate this up. I read it all, and I cherish the emotional bent that keeps these women fighting for kids and loving when it's hard. This is essentially a beautiful story whether you buy it or not. I don't find it strange thAt Torey would seek out Sheila if only for her second book about it as it can't be so really: It must be so rewarding to see someone flourish that you helped and who cared for you aNd vice versa.
Not to be praised
Rating:
1 / 5
Torey Hayden seemed to have placed a lot of stock in the book the "The Little Prince" in rationalizing why she and Sheila could no longer be together. However, she was more than a teacher to Sheila; she was her surrogate mother. At the end of the book Torey included a poem that Sheila wrote at a later date. I believe the poem was written by a child who longed for her surrogate mother. Sheila may have thought that if she was good enough Torey might come back. She no doubt blamed herself when Torey left. This is a good book to read if you are looking for an example about a teacher crossing boundaries and re-traumatizing a student that has been abused. I found it ironic that Torey only sought Sheila out again when she wanted to write another book.
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