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Louis Braille: The Blind Boy Who Wanted to Read (Remarkable Children Series)
by Dannis Fradin, Robert Sauber (Illustrator), Dennis Brindell Fradin
From Booklist , 05/01/97: Gr. 2-4, younger for reading aloud. By one
of those strange publishing coincidences, this is the third children's biography of Louis
Braille to come out this season. The picture-book format of this one is much like David
Adler's A Picture Book of Louis Braille (1996); it's for a younger audience than
Russell Freedman's Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille [1997]. This is an
astonishing story--the blind French boy who at 15 invented the reading system that is
still used by the blind across the world--and it is told here as part of the Remarkable
Children series in a straightforward style, with handsome full-page period paintings and a
final diagram of the Braille alphabet.
Copyright© 1997, American Library Association. All rights reserved
Synopsis: Blinded at five, Louis Braille hungered to read. At 15 he invented the system that has opened the world of books to millions of blind people. This is his inspiring story. --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title.
Card catalog description: A simple biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who as a boy created a system by which the blind could read.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published by Silver Burdett Pr
Publication date: February 1997
Dimensions (in inches): 0.40 x 11.40 x 9.39
ISBN: 0382394682