
Art: Peg's older brother whom Dorothy adores.She gives her Torture Time: hot packs and stretching. Crab: Peg's physical therapist at University Hospital, whom Peg doesn't like. She is able to return home because her family builds her a ramp. Dorothy: Sheltering Arms roommate, who longs to be in leg braces to go home.

Her parents didn't want to take care of her because she was so badly crippled, and she became a ward of the state. Alice: Sheltering Arms roommate, who has been there for ten years.Shirley: Sheltering Arms roommate, who has the worst polio and likes marshmallows.Renee: Sheltering Arms roommate, who goes home for Christmas.Tommy: Peg's hospital roommate at University Hospital, in an iron lung.Peg: Main character and narrator of the story, diagnosed with polio.The book won the Golden Kite Award in 1997. Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio is a memoir of author Peg Kehret's childhood experience of polio.

Golden Kite Award Mark Twain Readers Award In addition, the little stork offers you many opportunities for recording, filling in, coloring and doing brain twisters and he even wants to give you an award at the end.1996 memoir by Peg Kehret Small Steps: The Year I Got Polioĭorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award He will tell you lots about the shooting sports, will give you tips on safety and how a healthy lifestyle will help you succeed. He is very skilled at using his long, pointy beak and almost always hits his target.

The little stork will accompany you throughout the book. You will get tips for practicing at home and we will tell you how to recognize and avoid mistakes. We will give you important information about equipment, techniques and about your physical fitness. How do you concentrate at just the right moment, keep your nerve and hit the target? We would like this book to be your practice companion. That requires knowledge of your sport, the proper technique and equipment. Whether you shoot at cans or at targets, with balls, arrows, lasers or, later on, with actual sport ammunition, you want to be able to hit your target.

? you have your target in your sights, you breathe calmly and then ? the shot!
