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“My 6 year old loves this book (Touch the Sun). Much of the content will be current and relevant as he gets older and while he may not understand everything now he certainly enjoys it. The book is great for all ages and I have learned quite a bit. Of his library of Braille books, this is his absolute favorite!”
-- Lorelei Clark ( Southern California , USA )
“(Touch the Sun is) An excellent book to teach students who are blind or visually impaired about the sun. The tactile representations and the descriptor for each tactile representation are just what is needed to bring these abstract concepts home.
-- Elizabeth Eagan Satter ( Houston , Texas )
“(Touch the Sun is) Fun to read. Really enjoyed the illustrations. It was a whole new experience for me.” --K. Mills
“Touch The Sun like the other two books by Noreen Grice, Touch the Universe and Touch the Stars, is a wonderfully clear explanation of complex events and stellar phenomena. In addition to the large print and Braille text, this book is filled with beautiful full color and fully embossed images of the sun making it entirely accessible to people tactually or visually. This is a informative and important book.”
-- Ann Cunningham ( Denver , CO )
"...fun to experience whether you're visually impaired or not..."
-- Chicago Tribune , June 29, 2003
"Noreen Grice presents the sky in a way I'd never envisaged. Sighted people should close their eyes to touch the Eagle Nebula. It will never seem the same again. This book doesn't merely fill in gaps for people with impaired vision, it adds a new dimension for those of us who have already seen the phenomena depicted here."
-- New Scientist , March 22, 2003
"...a wonderful book...The gorgeous full-color images are also beautifully rendered in raised line form. ... Author Noreen Grice writes in clear, simple terms easily understandable by children from third grade or so on up. ... Grice's enthusiasm for astronomy and wonder at the universe is evident throughout the book. ... How exciting that there is now a way for blind children to get a glimpse of a world they ordinarily would not get to see. I tried the book out on three blind students, a fifth grader, an eighth grader, and a senior in high school. One of the kids almost refused to give it back to me! I am sure blind adults would also appreciate and enjoy the book. If you've ever marveled at the size and complexity of the universe and if you'd like to awaken or nourish that wonder in your child, be sure to get this book."
-- Carol Castellano, Future Reflections , 2002
"As a radio astronomer (and the world's only blind one, at that), I feel a powerful intuitive connection with the astonishing exotic objects in the distant universe. When I touch the tactile image of the Hubble Deep Field galaxies in Touch The Universe , I am overwhelmed by the same astonishment, a sensory connection with the distant cosmos. It has oft been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, for the first time in my career, I get the picture."
-- Dr. Kent Cullers, Director of Research and Development, the SETI Institute
"...a fine achievement... the text is concise and lucid, and some of the illustrations, particularly those showing star and galaxy clusters, are classics of their kind: here, the fundamental problem of translating the three-dimensional photographic perspective into two-dimensional tactile illustration is tackled with ingenuity and imagination. ... Grice has accomplished something which, unless you are worringly short on the capacity to stand back in amazement, will enrich your life."
-- Royal National Institute for the Blind , Jan/Feb 2003
"I bought this (Touch the Sun) book as a gift for my 11 yr old Daughter who is Blind. I think the idea of having pictures that she can feel that are also illustrated so that myself and anyone else reading the book with her can see is GREAT! There is also printed text on every page so that sighted people can read it as well. Out of all of the braille books she owns or has borrowed this is the best one in my opinion. She was absolutely enthralled by this book.The information is presented in a way that was easy for her to comprehend.When I ordered this books I wasn't sure how she would react to a non-fiction book. I was pleasantly surprised to see that she absolutely loved it. All braille books should be done this well.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book."
-- Chad Cheatham, Rockford, IL
"This book (Touch the Sun) is absolutely amazing. I ordered it for my blind grandson and then ordered another copy for myself. The text is accurate and the illustrations are amazing, awesome and out of this world. The illustrator has truly brought a new level of learning to the blind. Good Job!!! "
-- M.L. Orth, Tucson, AZ
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