Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille write by Jen Bryant. This book was released on 2016-09-06. Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille—a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet. **Winner of a Schneider Family Book Award!** 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. Award-winning writer Jen Bryant tells Braille’s inspiring story with a lively and accessible text, filled with the sounds, the smells, and the touch of Louis’s world. Boris Kulikov’s inspired paintings help readers to understand what Louis lost, and what he was determined to gain back through books. An author’s note and additional resources at the end of the book complement the simple story and offer more information for parents and teachers. Praise for Six Dots: "An inspiring look at a child inventor whose drive and intelligence changed to world—for the blind and sighted alike."—Kirkus Reviews "Even in a crowded field, Bryant’s tightly focused work, cast in the fictionalized voice of Braille himself, is particularly distinguished."—Bulletin, starred review "This picture book biography strikes a perfect balance between the seriousness of Braille’s life and the exuberance he projected out into the world." — School Library Journal, starred review
Who Was Louis Braille?
Who Was Louis Braille? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Was Louis Braille? write by Margaret Frith. This book was released on 2014-03-13. Who Was Louis Braille? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Picture Book of Louis Braille
A Picture Book of Louis Braille - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Picture Book of Louis Braille write by David A. Adler. This book was released on 1997. A Picture Book of Louis Braille available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents the life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.
Louis Braille
Louis Braille - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Louis Braille write by C. Michael Mellor. This book was released on 2006. Louis Braille available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius is the first ever, full-color biography to include thirty-one of his extant letters, some written by his own hand, and translated into English for the first time.Three great men were born in the early weeks of January 1809: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and Louis Braille. Only one has remained virtually unknown ? the man who invented a means of reading and writing still used today in almost every country in the world, adapted to almost every known language from Albanian to Zulu.Born sighted, Louis Braille accidentally blinded himself at the age of 3. He was lucky enough to be sent to a school for blind children in Paris, one of the first in the world. There, at the age of sixteen, he worked tirelessly on a revolutionary system of finger reading that became braille. He was a talented musician, astute businessman, and genius inventor ? collaborating with another Frenchman to invent the first dot-matrix printer around 1840.
Out of Darkness
Out of Darkness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Out of Darkness write by Russell Freedman. This book was released on 1999-09-20. Out of Darkness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A biography of the 19th century Frenchman who developed Braille. The book spans Braille's life from childhood through his days at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth and into his final years, when the alphabet he invented was finally gaining acceptance.
