A Picture Book of Louis Braille
Illustrator
Alexandra Wallner; John Wallner
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication Year
1997
ISBN
9780823414130
Pages
34 pages
Genre
biography
Format
picture book
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
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.
Grade Level
K-3
Lexile Measure
AD850L
Diversity Topics
Disability and Health; Physical disability; Illness; blind; blind child; blind adult; tuberculosis
Main Character
male child; male adult
Race/Ethnicities
French
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001
Children's Catalog, Nineteenth Edition, 2006
Keywords
school for the blind; accident; teaching; code; braille; accomplishment
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Adler, David A., "A Picture Book of Louis Braille" (1997). Diverse Families. 1589.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1589