Louis Braille: The Blind Boy who Wanted to Read

ISBN-10
0382394690
ISBN-13
9780382394690
Series
Louis Braille
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
32
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Silver Burdett Press
Author
Dennis B. Fradin

Description

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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