The world at his fingertips
Subtitle: a story about Louis Braille
By: by Barbara O'Connor ; illustrations by Rochelle Draper.
Series: A Carolrhoda creative minds biography
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
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.; Braille.
Description: A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who created the dot system of reading and writing that is now used by the blind throughout the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 60) and index.