Louis Braille, the boy who invented books for the blind

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

059044350X

Collation

80 pages : illustration ; 19 cm

Series Title

Scholastic Biography

Call Number

926 BRA

Louis Braille

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.

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