Who Was Helen Keller? is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.4 and Literacy.L.1.1. Large black-and-white photographs of Helen Keller’s childhood, youth, interactions with her teacher Anne Sullivan, travels, and education along with narrative nonfiction text explain the fulfilling life of Helen Keller. Readers will learn about the great leaps she and her instructor made in accommodating deafness and blindness in our world. This book should be paired with Helen Keller: Miracle Child (9781448888245) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.