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Text and illustrations look at the life and work of Louis Braille, creator of the writing system that enables blind people to read.

The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who invented an alphabet enabling the blind to read.

Louis Braille was only fifteen when he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Readers will learn how Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and nearly two hundred years later, no one has ever improved on his simple, brilliant idea.

Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted most of all was to be able to read. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that he could read by touch.

Tells the life story of Louis Braille, the nineteenth-century man who lost his sight at the age of three and developed an alphabet for blind people when he was fifteen.

Biography of Louis Braille, who became blind at the age of three, invented a system of punched dots that would enable blind people to read.

Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted most of all was to be able to read. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that he could read by touch.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

Looks at the life of Louis Braille, telling the story of how he came to invent the Braille system of type for blind readers.

The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used by the blind throughout the world.