Seney on Books: A Trilogy Not to Be Overlooked

I had just returned from Dublin, Ireland, where I did a presentation at the Conference of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA), the European equivalent to NAGC. The topic was nurturing and supporting Dabrowski’s overexcitabilities through literature. When I address this topic, I usually have a wagon-load of books; but travel to Ireland precluded bringing them along. Instead, I selected just two to use as examples. One of the books was Susan Bosak’s Dream: A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom & Wishes (2004, TCP Press — The Communication Project). This book deserves (and will get) its own review in a future column. The second book was Suzy Lee’s Mirror (2010, Seven Footer Press), a book that I reviewed in an earlier column in the November, 2011, issue of 2e Newsletter).

In conversation with a good friend and colleague, Dr. Myra Garces, of The National Institute of Education, Singapore, she reminded me that Mirror was part of a trilogy featuring the same little girl. Upon returning home, I dug through my library to find the other two books, Wave (2008, Chronicle Books) and Shadow (2010 Chronical books). All three are wordless and thus allow for the creativity of each reader who interacts with the book.