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2024 FPPL Disability Pride Children's Selections
Inventors & Inventions (WPL-Youth)
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Understanding Blindness & Low Vision - Picture Books
Inventors & Inventions (WPL-Youth)
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Understanding Blindness & Low Vision - Picture Books
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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 more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet-- a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.
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Regardless of whether they have heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful, energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for the piano and his acute memory for any sound that he heard drove him to become a virtuoso who was revered by both classical and jazz...
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