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Louis Braille
by Tessa PotterEach title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. This book describes how one blind French boy developed a system of reading, in the early part of the nineteenth century, that opened up the world to blind people everywhere. His development of a system of dots to represent letters was based on a military method of night communications. Through his story, the reader also learns what life was like for blind people then, and what a difference Braille made to them, while accurate drawings show how the Braille system works.
Louis Braille (large print)
by RnibThis page shows a portrait of Louis Braille. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left when the image is the correct way up. The image is surrounded by an image border. The image is of his head and some of his shoulders only. His head is pointing forwards. At the top of the image he has red brown, slightly chunky hair. He has strong eyebrows. Both of his eyes are closed. He has pronounced cheekbones and sunken cheeks. He has a neck scarf wrapped around his neck. He wears a heavy jacket and waistcoat which is buttoned up to his neck. His eyes are closed because he was blind from the age of three.
Louis Braille (UEB contracted)
by RnibThis page shows a portrait of Louis Braille. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left when the image is the correct way up. The image is surrounded by an image border. The image is of his head and some of his shoulders only. His head is pointing forwards. At the top of the image he has red brown, slightly chunky hair. He has strong eyebrows. Both of his eyes are closed. He has pronounced cheekbones and sunken cheeks. He has a neck scarf wrapped around his neck. He wears a heavy jacket and waistcoat which is buttoned up to his neck. His eyes are closed because he was blind from the age of three.
Louis Braille (UEB uncontracted)
by RnibThis page shows a portrait of Louis Braille. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left when the image is the correct way up. The image is surrounded by an image border. The image is of his head and some of his shoulders only. His head is pointing forwards. At the top of the image he has red brown, slightly chunky hair. He has strong eyebrows. Both of his eyes are closed. He has pronounced cheekbones and sunken cheeks. He has a neck scarf wrapped around his neck. He wears a heavy jacket and waistcoat which is buttoned up to his neck. His eyes are closed because he was blind from the age of three.
Triumph Over Darkness
by Lennard BickelBorn in France in 1809, Louis Braille was the fourth child of a village saddler. At the age of three, he stabbed himself in the eye with a pointed tool taken from his father's work bench. Some thirteen years later he again took a sharp tool from the same bench and used it to create a code of raised dots punched through sheets of paper. With the patience of genius, he perfected his code – still unsurpassed – and fashioned an alphabet that opened the world of learning to the blind.Louis Braille died at the age of forty-three, unknown and unhonoured. His superiors at the Royal Institute for the Young Blind in Paris would not recognise a system that was not based on the shapes of the alphabet.Lennard Bickel researched this story in Paris and in the small village where Louis Braille was born. He tells of the trials and torments of young blind man struggling amid the harshest conditions to perfect something he believed in.Triumph Over Darkness, first published in 1988, is a stirring story of determination and tenacity in the face of adversity.