![]() ![]() ![]() Then the headmaster announced that they would try using the same code the army employed to send secret messages during battle. When he was ten, he got a scholarship to a school for the blind in Paris, but the students had to read by tracing raised letters, and it was a very long and tedious process. Louis went blind when he was three years old following an accident in his father’s harness workshop. The story came out of the author’s curiosity over what it would have been like to have been Louis Braille, the blind inventor of a system of reading and writing for the sight-impaired still in use today. This book, which tells the story of Louis Braille, begins by showing the Braille Alphabet on the end papers, followed by a pronunciation guide for the French names and phrases that appear in the ensuing text. ![]()
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