Who Was Louis Braille?

Margaret Frith, Who HQ, Robert Squier

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English

G P Putnam's Sons
13 March 2014

Series: Who Was?

In 1812, when he was three years old, Louis Braille became blind. A bright boy and an accomplished musician, he later attended the world's first school for blind children, located in Paris. Then, at only fifteen, he developed a system of reading and writing through raised dots (known today as Braille) that is still used in almost every country in the world. He died on January 6th, 1852.

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.

By: Margaret Frith, Who HQ
Illustrated by: Robert Squier
Imprint: G P Putnam's Sons
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 102g
ISBN: 9780448479033
ISBN 10: 0448479036
Series: Who Was?
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 13 March 2014
Recommended Age: From 8 to 12 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Margaret Frith is the author of Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? and Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? She lives in New York City.