Louis Braille, the boy who invented books for the blind
By: by Margaret Davidson ; illustrated by Janet Compere
Contributors: Compere, Janet, ill
Series: Scholastic biography
Publisher: Scholastic Book Services
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780590443500
Subjects: Blind; People with disabilities; Juvenile literature; Biography
Description: The life of the 19th-century Frenchman who invented an alphabet enabling the blind to read.
Table of contents: title: Louis Braille; title: Blind boy; title: Special friend; title: New boy; title: "It's just a show-off trick!"; title: Alphabet of dots; title: So many ways to say no; title: Troubles; title: Demonstration of dots; title: One by one the last years pass.