Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind
Why we picked it
Drawing on his own lived experience of blindness, young Louis Braille created a tactile reading system that transformed literacy for blind people worldwide, and this poignant middle-grade biography tells that story with the depth and care it deserves.
Our review
A poignant account of Louis Braille, who, drawing on his own experience of blindness and his time as a student at the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, developed the tactile reading system that changed literacy for blind people around the world. A story of ingenuity, empathy, and the quiet determination to solve a problem everyone else had simply accepted as unsolvable.
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A poignant story of the man who developed the Braille system of printing for the blind.
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- Book
- Age ranges
- Middle School
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- Special Education Teacher
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