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Out of Darkness

The Story of Louis Braille

by Russell Freedman, Kate Kiesler

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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.

Juvenile literatureBrailleBlind teachersBlindPeople with disabilitiesTeachersBiographyBraille, louis, 1809-1852JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalPhysically handicappedBlind, printing and writing systemsBlind, biography