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Author Freedman, Russell, 1929-2018.

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

Publication Info. New York : Clarion Books, [1997]
©1997

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Bio Freedm Out 1997    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Description 81 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
age Children
Note 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.
Contents Dormitory -- Accident -- Little blind boy -- Royal Institute for Blind Youth -- Nightwriting -- Braille cell -- Teacher -- Gift.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Blind teachers -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Blind teachers.
France.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Braille -- Juvenile literature.
Braille.
Braille, Louis, 1809-1852 -- Juvenile literature.
Braille, Louis, 1809-1852.
Genre/Form Juvenile works.
Biographies.
Added Author Kiesler, Kate, illustrator.
ISBN 0395775167
9780395775165
0395968887
9780395968888