Cover of Who Was Louis Braille?

Who Was Louis Braille?

Who Was/Is...? series

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea.

Audience
childrensmiddle grade
Length
short · 112 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Who Was Louis Braille?? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Who Was Louis Braille?. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Who Was Bruce Lee? Shares biography, nonfiction, childrens
  2. Who Is Steven Spielberg? Shares biography, nonfiction, childrens
  3. Who Was Isaac Newton? Shares biography, nonfiction, childrens
  4. Who Is George Lucas? Shares biography, nonfiction, childrens

“People who read Who Was Louis Braille? tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Who Was Sally Ride?
  2. Who Is Dolly Parton?
  3. Who Was Milton Hershey?
  4. Who Was Gandhi?

“If you want more of the same (biography), start with these.”

  1. Who Was Harry Houdini?
  2. Who Was Charles Dickens?
  3. Who Was Maria Tallchief?
  4. Who Was Henry Ford?

“If it was the bluestem that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Who Was Jim Henson?
  2. Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories
  3. Who was Roald Dahl?
  4. Who Was Daniel Boone?

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
  2. Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
  3. Press Here
  4. Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind