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A simple biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who as a boy created a system by which the blind could read
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Grade 2-4?At 15, Braille, who lost his sight as a young boy, invented a reading system for blind people, though it was not accepted in his lifetime. The young inventor's story is presented in an attractive format with easy-to-read print facing a full-color illustration on each double-page spread. The text and pictures work together well, moving readers through Braille's life in a clear and well-paced manner. Some fictionalized dialogue appears, but it is kept to a bare minimum. The focus is on Braille's childhood; his adult life is summarized in the last two pages. This is a solid beginning biography with enough information to satisfy report writers, and recreational readers should also enjoy it. David Adler's A Picture Book of Louis Braille (Holiday House, 1997) has a bit more scope and detail.?Jane Claes, T. J. Lee Elementary School, Irving, TX
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Gr. 2^-4, younger for reading aloud. By one of those strange publishing coincidences, this is the third children's biography of Louis Braille to come out this season. The picture-book format of this one is much like David Adler's A Picture Book of Louis Braille (1996); it's for a younger audience than Russell Freedman's Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille [1997]. This is an astonishing story--the blind French boy who at 15 invented the reading system that is still used by the blind across the world--and it is told here as part of the Remarkable Children series in a straightforward style, with handsome full-page period paintings and a final diagram of the Braille alphabet. Hazel Rochman
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