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 Who Was Louis Braille? by Margaret Frith, Robert Squier (illustrator) and Scott Anderson Grosset & Dunlap | March 2014 | ISBN-10: 0448479036 | ePUB | 41.6 mb 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. This is a beautifully illustrated biography. About the Author Margaret Frith is a published author and an editor of children's books.Margaret Frith is the author of Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? and Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? She lives in New York City. CONTENTS Title Page Dedication Copyright Who Was Louis Braille? Chapter 1 The Accident Chapter 2 The Village School Chapter 3 A Wider World Chapter 4 A Change for the Better Chapter 5 Night Writing Chapter 6 The Breakthrough Chapter 7 From Student to Teacher Chapter 8 A Struggle Chapter 9 A Dark Cloud Chapter 10 A New Home Timelines Bibliography 
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