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The Reading Club's Featured Books | |
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Our featured selections are award-winning books that are obtainable in print from libraries and bookstores, and are also available in alternate formats (electronic or braille). Grade levels are approximate. | |
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A Picture Book of Louis Braille | |
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By David A. Adler | |
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1997. Holiday House | |
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Available in braille or electronic formats from the following sources: 1. National Braille Press $6.95 http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/LOUIS.html (888) 965-8965 2. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Available in braille and talking book www.loc.gov/nls/ (202) 707-5100 |
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Louis Braille is a 3 year old who injures his eye while playing with a tool in his father's workshop. Louis has to relearn how to feed himself and walk safely. When he is 10 he goes to a school for blind children in Paris. There Louis meets Charles Barbier, a captain the French Army. Barbier shows Louis and his classmates a code he has invented that lets soldiers share messages in the dark. Louis takes Barbier's code and changes it, so that a person who is blind can use it to read and write. | |
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Talk about A Picture Book of Louis Braille on the Braille Bug Message Boards. Play a game that is based on A Picture Book of Louis Braille. |
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