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OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Understanding Blindness & Low Vision - Picture Books
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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Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius is the first ever, full-color biography to include thirty-one of his extant letters, some written by his own hand, and translated into English for the first time. Three great men were born in the early weeks of 1809: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and Louis Braille. Only one has remained virtually unknown the man who invented a means of reading and writing still used today in almost every country in the world, adapted...
11) Louis Braille
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Introduces the life of Louis Braille, who developed braille, an alphabet which allowed the blind to read.
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Remarkable children volume 1
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A simple biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who as a boy created a system by which the blind could read.
17) Louis Braille
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A simple biography of the man who invented a special system of raised dots on paper enabling blind people to read.
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