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Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Disabilities, Historical biography, Science and medicine biography, European travel and geography, General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
A narrative biography of Louis Braille, who lost his sight as a young child while playing in his father's workshop.…
After being exposed to coded military messages at the Royal School for the Blind in Paris, Louis invented his own alphabet--a system for writing using six dots. For grades K-3. 2016
DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons
Human-narrated audio
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. Grades 4-7. 1998.
DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons
Human-narrated audio
Recounts the life of Louis Braille who, at fifteen, created a system of raised dots that allows blind persons to…
read and write. Describes Louis's childhood, the accident that caused his blindness, the support he received from his family, and his education, which led to his creation of the braille alphabet. Junior and senior high school readers. 1994.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Historical biography, Science and medicine biography, United States history
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
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.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Historical biography, General non-fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
In the late 1700s, young Louis Braille overcame his disability by inventing "night writing," a system of raised dots to…
help blind people read. This alphabet of raised dots allowed sightless people to live more independent lives.