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Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
 
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Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille (Paperback)

by Russell Freedman (Author), Kate Kiesler (Illustrator)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) (30 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0395968887
  • ISBN-13: 978-0395968888
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.6 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 607,800 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This brief biography of Louis Braille brings the central figure to life as vividly as only Freedman can". -- The Horn Book Magazine

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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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars It is a wonderful book, 12 Jan 1999
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Out of the Darkness is a sad but wonderful story about Louis Braille I would hily recamend this book to people of all ages.
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