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Who was Louis Braille? / by Margaret Frith ; illustrated by Robert Squier.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Who was-- ?Publisher: New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC., [2014]Description: 104 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0448479036
  • 9780448479033
Other title:
  • Louis Braille?
Subject(s):
Contents:
Who was Louis Braille? -- The accident -- The village school -- A wider world -- A change for the better -- NIght writing -- The breakthrough -- From student to teacher -- A struggle -- A dark cloud -- A new home -- Timelines.
Summary: Examines the life and times of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who developed the system of raised dots by which blind people read and write.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Biography Braille, L. F919 Available 33111007538321
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea.

Includes bibliographical references (page 104).

Who was Louis Braille? -- The accident -- The village school -- A wider world -- A change for the better -- NIght writing -- The breakthrough -- From student to teacher -- A struggle -- A dark cloud -- A new home -- Timelines.

Examines the life and times of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who developed the system of raised dots by which blind people read and write.

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