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Six dots : a story of young Louis Braille / by Jen Bryant ; illustrations by Boris Kulikov.

By:

Bryant, Jen, 1960-

Contributor(s):

Kulikov, Boris, 1966- [illustrator.]

Material type:

TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 36 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780449813379 (hardcover)
0449813371 (hardcover)
9780449813386 (library binding)
044981338X (library binding)
9780605950887
0605950881

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Biographies.

LOC classification:

JUV HV 1624 .B65 B793 2016

Awards:

Schneider Family Book Award, 2017

Summary: Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet -- a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Juvenile Book	Storms Research Center Juvenile Collection	JUV HV 1624 .B65 B793 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	98651416

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Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet -- a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.