One TV Blasting and a Pig Outdoors

Authors

Deborah Abbott
Henry Kisor

Illustrator

Leslie H. Morrill

Publisher

Albert Whitman & Company

Publication Year

1994

ISBN

9780807560754

Pages

40 pages

Genre

realism

Format

picture book

Item Type

Fiction

Annotation

What’s it like to have a deaf father? As Conan explains, it’s not so different—but it’s always interesting. Conan tells how his father Henry Kisor learned to read and speak, made his way through “regular” schools, and grew up to be a newspaper editor and author. Conan also describes the challenges of lipreading and the technological advances that have made communication easier for his dad.

Grade Level

Pk-1; K-3

Diversity Topics

Disability and Health; Physical disability; deaf; deaf adult; deaf father

Main Character

male child

Race/Ethnicities

White

Family Formation

mother and father

Keywords

dog; pig; reading and speaking; newspaper; editor; author; lipreading; challenges; communication; brother

Diversity Impact

direct

STARS Citation

Abbott, Deborah and Kisor, Henry, "One TV Blasting and a Pig Outdoors" (1994). Diverse Families. 1950.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1950