Bibliograph

Who was Louis Braille?, by Margaret Frith ; illustrated by Robert Squier

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Who was Louis Braille?, by Margaret Frith ; illustrated by Robert Squier

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 104) and timeline

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individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Intended audience

780L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Who was Louis Braille?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

by Margaret Frith ; illustrated by Robert Squier

Series statement

Who was-- ?Who HQ

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Accelerated Reader, MG, 5.3, 1, 165688

Summary

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

Target audience

juvenile

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Louis Braille

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