The world at his fingertips : a story about Louis Braille

Author(s)

• O'Connor, Barbara

Bibliographic Information

The world at his fingertips : a story about Louis Braille

by Barbara O'Connor ; illustrations by Rochelle Draper

（A Carolrhoda creative minds biography）

Carolrhoda Books, c1997

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 60) and index

Summary: 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

Details

• NCID: BA43630150
• ISBN:
  • 1575050528
• LCCN: 96049950
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Minneapolis, Minn.
• Pages/Volumes: 64 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV1624.B65
  • DC21 : 686.2/82/092
  • DC21 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Braille, Louis, 1809-1852 -- Juvenile literature
  • LCSH : Blind teachers -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
  • LCSH : Braille -- Juvenile literature
  • JVSH : Braille, Louis, 1809-1852
  • JVSH : Blind
  • JVSH : Teachers
  • JVSH : Physically handicapped
  • JVSH : Braille
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA43631448