Freedman, Russell.

Out of darkness : the story of Louis Braille / by Russell Freedman ; illustrated by Kate Kiesler. - New York : Clarion Books, c1997. - 81 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

ISBN: 0395775167

LCCN: 95052353 /AC

Subjects--Personal Names:
Braille, Louis, 1809-1852 --Juvenile literature.
Braille, Louis, 1809-1852.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Blind teachers--Biography--Juvenile literature.--France
Braille--Juvenile literature.
Blind.
Teachers.
Physically handicapped.
Braille.

LC Class. No.: HV1624.B65 / F74 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 686.2/82/092 B