Mom Can’t See Me
By: Sally Hobart Alexander & George Ancona
Publisher: Macmillan, 1990
Age Level: 9-12
Language: English
ISBN: 0-02-700401-5
This is Sally Hobart Alexander’s own story as told by of her nine-year-old daughter. When she was in her twenties, a rare disease caused the author’s vision to diminish gradually over two years until it was gone. As Leslie Alexander says of her mother, “Mostly she’s like other mothers.” But she’s different not because she is blind, but because she camps out, plays the piano, tap dances, rides her bike and because she laughs a lot, especially at herself.