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To help understand Mandy and the challenges she faced, I tried to experience some of what she would need to know. I learned the basics of reading braille and about orientation and mobility skills. I honed the manuscript with help from people who would know what I'd gotten right or wrong--teachers and counselors and young people who, like Mandy, are making their own way in a world that comes to them through senses other than sight. From AUTHOR AT A GLANCE Jeanette Ingold, copyright ©1999 by Harcourt Brace. |
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It's my characters that I work hardest at and care most
about. Mandy, the blind teenager who is the main character in THE WINDOW,
is someone very close to my heart. I first met her the day she appeared on
my computer screen. She had a proud and independent voice, the sound of a
girl ready to face whatever might come her way. She had a lot to learn,
though, both about blindness and about letting other people into her life, and I
learned right along with her.