Who Was Louis Braille?

Part of Who Was?

Illustrated by Robert Squier
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$6.99 US
Penguin Young Readers | Penguin Workshop
72 per carton
On sale Mar 13, 2014 | 978-0-448-47903-3
Age 8-12 years
Reading Level: Lexile 780L | Fountas & Pinnell R
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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.

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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.