Freedman, Russell.

Out of darkness : the story of Louis Braille / by Russell Freedman ; illustrated by Kate Kiesler. - New York : Clarion Books, c1997. - 81 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Horn Book May 00,1997 Sch Libr Jnl March 00,1997 Booklist March 01,1997 Kirkus February 01,1997

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

10-14. 5-9.

0395775167 : $16.00

95052353


Braille, Louis, 1809-1852.


Blind--Biography.
Teachers--Biography.
Disabilities--blindness
Values--Determination
Braille


France--Biography.

HV1624.B65 / F74 1997

686.2/82/092 B 926/.862/82