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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
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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.
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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.
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Biography
Human-narrated audio
A biography, written by an Australian, Lennard Bickel, this book sets the life and achievements of Louis Braille in the…
setting of the political and social life of France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Commencing with the foundation of the Royal Institute for the Young Blind in Paris (1786), it describes the constant battle to improve conditions for the blind, Braille's encouragement by Dr. Pignier (Director of the Institute) against opposition for the use of a "special alphabet" for the blind, and the gradual acceptance of the 'six-dot-system" which came only after Braille's tragic death at the age of forty-three.
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)
Biography, Historical biography
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Although this is a children's book, it is written in a style that will appeal to adults, as well. It…
is an interesting and very informative biography of Louis Braille, and includes a bibliography for further reading.
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)
Biography, Historical biography
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
a children's book about Louis Braille