Six dots : a story of young Louis Braille / by Jen Bryant ; illustrations by Boris Kulikov.
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TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 36 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780449813379 (hardcover); 0449813371 (hardcover); 9780449813386 (library binding); 044981338X (library binding)Subject(s): Braille, Louis, 1809-1852 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature | Braille -- History -- Juvenile literature | Blind teachers -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature | Braille -- Juvenile literature | Blind teachers -- France -- BiographyGenre/Form: Picture books for children. | Biographies. DDC classification: 686.2/82092 | B LOC classification: HV1624.B65 | B793 2016Summary: Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet -- a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.
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| wnor - Non junior picture books | Northam Northam Junior Fiction | Q JF BRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111069131710 |
"This is a Borzoi book" -- copyright page.
Includes bibliographical references.
Ages 4-8.
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet -- a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.
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