Richard Scrimger's Point of View

This week our topic was on Disabilities and the Disabilities framework and aside from reading articles, we also read From Charlies Point of View by Richard Scrimger, which was a novel about the main character, Charlie, and friends Bernie and Lewis, trying to solve a mystery about bank robberies, once Charlie's own father is accused. Charlie is also blind. But don't worry, this isn't one of those novels about the main character "overcoming" his disability and being able to live a "normal" life. This is a story about Charlie's life, and gives insight to a sighted reader about things to consider that non-sighted people go through, such as memorizing the number of steps at the school, having all your textbooks translated into braille, etc. Overall, I would say this book was a good read, and was a positive representation of the underrepresented group we studied this week, on disabilities.
So, after finishing this book, I was curious about the author, Scrimger, and was curious if maybe he was also blind, and it made me kind of think about the ongoing "insider vs. outsider" debate, so like most college students, i advantageously remembered the helpful search engine known as google, and I googled Richard Scrimger, and went to his website. After being quite intrigued by his website, I wanted to learn more, so I went to his personal blog, and read on.
I encourage everyone in class to take a look at this blog. He has a very unique, interesting, and insightful blog...and did I mention funny? also, not on the same caliber of children's literature =)
enjoy....
http://scrimger.blogspot.com/


happy snooping!