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Author:

Freedman, Russell.

Title:

Out of darkness : the story of Louis Braille / by Russell Freedman ; illustrated by Kate Kiesler.

Publisher:

Clarion Books,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

81 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Braille, Louis--1809-1852.
Braille, Louis--1809-1852.--Juvenile literature.
Blind.
Braille.
Braille.--Juvenile literature.
Physically handicapped.
Blind teachers--Juvenile literature.--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Teachers.

Other Authors:

Kiesler, Kate, ill.

Notes:

Includes index.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0395775167
9780395775165

Locations:

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

AGPE046 -- Drake Public Library (Centerville)

JSSX094 -- Janesville School Library (Janesville)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

JEPA911 -- New Virginia Public Library (New Virginia)