The World at His Fingertips
A Story About Louis Braille
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Publication
1997 - First Avenue Editions
Language
English
Word Count
16,000 words, Guess
Page Count
64 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8743900M
- ISBN-139781575054612
- ISBN-101575054612
- OCLC Control Numberworldathisfinger0000barb
- Goodreads1072122
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- LibraryThing2509741
Classifications
- DDC686.2/82/092
- DDCB
- LCCHV1624.B65 O26 1997
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who created the dot system of reading and writing that is now used by the blind throughout the world.
First Sentence
Louis Braille sat in the doorway of his father's harness shop and watched his sisters, Catherine-Josephine and Marie-Celine, come out of the stone farmhouse.
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