1809-1852

Text and photographs present the biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used by the blind throughout the world.

The life of the 19th-century Frenchman who invented an alphabet enabling the blind to read.

A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.

A simple biography of the man who invented a special system of raised dots on paper enabling blind people to read.

Tells the life story of Louis Braille, the nineteenth-century man who lost his sight at the age of three and developed an alphabet for blind people when he was fifteen.

Introduces young readers to Braille, explaining what it is, how it was developed, and how it enables people who are losing their sight or cannot see to read and communicate with others.

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.

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.