Louis Braille
Subtitle: bringer of hope to the blind
By: Patricia Lantier, Beverly Birch.
Contributors: Birch, Beverley.
Edition: North American ed.
Series: People who made a difference
Publisher: G. Stevens Children's Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Milwaukee
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Braille, Louis, 1809-1852 -- Juvenile literature.; Braille, Louis, 1809-1852.; Blind teachers -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Braille -- Juvenile literature.; Blind.; Teachers.; People with disabilities.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used by the blind throughout the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This edition is abridged from Louis Braille : the inventor of a way to read and write that has helped millions of blind people communicate with the world ... written by Beverly Birch."--P. facing t.p.