Out of darkness : the story of Louis Braille /

Freedman, Russell.

Out of darkness : the story of Louis Braille / by Russell Freedman ; illustrated by Kate Kiesler. - First Scholastic printing, September 1998 - New York : Scholastic, 1997 - 81 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

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.

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Braille, Louis, 1809-1852 --Juvenile literature.
Braille, Louis, 1809-1852.


Blind teachers--Biography--Juvenile literature.--France
Braille--Juvenile literature.
Blind.
Teachers.
People with disabilities.
Braille.

HV1624.B65 / F74 1997

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