Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
- ISBN-10
- 0395968887
- ISBN-13
- 9780395968888
- Series
- Out of Darkness
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 81
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-09
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Russell Freedman
Description
A biography of the modest Frenchman who, after being blinded at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
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