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Do You Dream in Color? : Insights from a Girl Without Sight by Laurie Rubin (2012, Trade Paperback)

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She explains that although she has been blind since birth, she has experienced color all her life. , Laurie Rubin looks back on her life as an international opera singer who happens to be blind.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSeven Stories Press

ISBN-101609804244

ISBN-139781609804244

eBay Product ID (ePID)114221947

Product Key Features

Book TitleDo You Dream in Color? : Insights from a Girl Without Sight

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicBiography & Autobiography / Women, Biography & Autobiography / General, Health & Daily Living / Physical Impairments, Lgbt, Biography & Autobiography / Music

Publication Year2012

IllustratorYes

GenreJuvenile Nonfiction

AuthorLaurie Rubin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight12.6 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN2012-016420

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Laurie Rubin shows that we need not be defined by what others may see as our limitations. With her remarkable approach to life and her extraordinary musical achievements, she is an inspiring example to all who are finding their way." --Katherine Damkohler, Executive Director, Education Through Music "I've never met Laurie Rubin, but her voice and spirit leap off the page of her riveting memoir. Despite all the obstacles and prejudice Rubin faced growing up blind, reading Do You Dream in Color? left me feeling that she's had a charmed life. . .Art, love, family, and connectedness are the high notes Rubin hits again and again in this unusually inspiring life story." --Elizabeth Benedict, author of Almost and The Practice of Deceit " Do You Dream in Color? shows the same clarity, honesty, and devotion that Laurie has always had with her art. A wonderful book." --Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano "Her book is riveting and readers will find themselves cheering for her victories and feeling her pain when peers and instructors dismiss her or treat her as if she is invisible or 'less-than' her sighted contemporaries." --Jewish Book Council, "Laurie Rubin shows that we need not be defined by what others may see as our limitations. With her remarkable approach to life and her extraordinary musical achievements, she is an inspiring example to all who are finding their way." -Katherine Damkohler, Executive Director, Education Through Music "I've never met Laurie Rubin, but her voice and spirit leap off the page of her riveting memoir. Despite all the obstacles and prejudice Rubin faced growing up blind, reading Do You Dream in Color? left me feeling that she's had a charmed life. . .Art, love, family, and connectedness are the high notes Rubin hits again and again in this unusually inspiring life story." -Elizabeth Benedict, author of Almost and The Practice of Deceit " Do You Dream in Color? shows the same clarity, honesty, and devotion that Laurie has always had with her art. A wonderful book." -Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano, "Laurie Rubin shows that we need not be defined by what others may see as our limitations. With her remarkable approach to life and her extraordinary musical achievements, she is an inspiring example to all who are finding their way." --Katherine Damkohler, Executive Director, Education Through Music "I've never met Laurie Rubin, but her voice and spirit leap off the page of her riveting memoir. Despite all the obstacles and prejudice Rubin faced growing up blind, reading Do You Dream in Color? left me feeling that she's had a charmed life. . .Art, love, family, and connectedness are the high notes Rubin hits again and again in this unusually inspiring life story." --Elizabeth Benedict, author of Almost and The Practice of Deceit " Do You Dream in Color? shows the same clarity, honesty, and devotion that Laurie has always had with her art. A wonderful book." --Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano "Her book is riveting and readers will find themselves cheering for her victories and feeling her pain when peers and instructors dismiss her or treat her as if she is invisible or 'less-than' her sighted contemporaries." --Jewish Book Council

Grade FromSeventh Grade

Dewey Decimal782.0092 B

SynopsisInternationally acclaimed mezzo soprano, Laurie Rubin, shares that colours affect everyone through sound, smell, taste and a vast array of emotions and atmospheres. Rubin has experienced colour all her life, in spite of the fact that she has been blind since birth. In Rubin's inspiring memoir, she looks back on the loneliness and isolation of being a blind teenager in Southern California and the amazing life experiences that led to her career as a renowned solo and opera performer. Rubin's story is one of overcoming life's struggles - no matter how impossible they seem., Colors, Rubin tells us, affect everyone through sound, smell, taste, and a vast array of emotions and atmospheres. She explains that although she has been blind since birth, she has experienced color all her life. In her memoir Do You Dream in Color? , Laurie Rubin looks back on her life as an international opera singer who happens to be blind. From her loneliness and isolation as a middle school student to her experiences skiing, Rubin offers her young readers a life-story rich in detail and inspiration drawn from everyday challenges. Beginning with her childhood in California, Rubin tells the story of her life and the amazing experiences that led her to a career as an internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano. Rubin describes her past as a "journey towards identity," one she hopes will resonate with young people struggling with two fundamental questions: "Who am I?" and "Where do I fit in?" Although most of us aren't blind, Rubin believes that many of us have traits that make us something other than "normal." These differences, like blindness, may seem like barriers, but for the strong and the persistent, dreams can overcome barriers, no matter how large they may seem. This is what makes her story so unique yet universal and so important for young readers.

LC Classification NumberML420.R8876A3 2012