Who Was Louis Braille?

by Margaret Frith, Who HQ, Robert Squier (Illustrator)

Overview

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780448479033
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	03/13/2014
Series:	Who Was? Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	79,477
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 5.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	780L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Margaret Frith is the author of Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? and Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? She lives in New York City.