braille, louis

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Louis Braille

2007
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.

All about Braille

reading by touch
2004
Introduces young readers to Braille, explaining what it is, how it was developed, and how it enables people who are losing their sight or cannot see to read and communicate with others.

A picture book of Louis Braille

1997
Presents the life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.

Out of darkness

the story of Louis Braille
1997
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.
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