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A Picture Book of Louis Braille

by David A. Adler · 1997

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Presents the life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.

Subject
biographyhistory
Themes
disability
Setting
france
Audience
childrenspicture books
Length
short · 30 pages

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