This book gives insight into the life of Louis Braille. It explains how he became blind and eventually how he used that disability to help others by creating Braille, a new way of communicating. Like many of persons with disabilities, he found a way to overcome the challenge of being blind instead of giving in to the disability. ( )

This book was a very good book about Louis Braille. However, compared to the book we read about Louis in class, this book was kind of bland. The book we read in class was full of pictures and went into detail of Louis' imagination. This book was basically a timeline of his life. I enjoyed the book thoroughly, and I learned some things that wasn't in the one we read in class. For example, the institute for the blind in Paris was kind of against Braille. The committee consisted of people who could see, and they simply just did not want to spend more money on new books. That was very disheartening to me considering Braille changed blind people's life tremendously. I also learned that he died at a very young age, and he died two days after his birthday. I thought the pictures in this book were very good because it seemed that they got every detail onto the page that was in the writing. For example, on the page where Louis is reading out of the huge blind books, it also talks about him being really good at music. In the background of the picture, you could see multiple instruments. ( )

Louis Braille was born on January 4, 1809 in Coupvray, France. One day when his father was busy with a customer, Braille went into his father's workshop and started playing with his sharp tools, which ended up cutting into his eye. The eye became infected and spread to the other eye, leaving him totally blind. His father began to hammer nails into a plank of wood into the shape of letters to teach Louis the alphabet. Louis loved music and learned to play the piano, organ, violin, and cello, and even played the organ in a few churches around Paris. In 1824, Louis created his own form of reading based on sonography, and created a writing board in 1825. He eventually became a teacher at the National Institute for Blind Children. He went on to develop tuberculosis, which was deadly in the 1800s, and died at the early age of forty-three.
This was such a treat to read. I loved the organization of the story and the illustrations. I especially love that there is a guide to braille at the end of the book. It's very charming! ( )

This picture book is about the famous Frenchman who invited the raised-dot alphabet/code now used around the world by blind and visually impaired readers. In this book, the author wrote about Louis Braille ’s life in simple way. The readers will learn from this book about his childhood when he had the accident that caused him to lose his sight and his career at the National institute for Blind Children in Paris. The author focused on development of the alphabet/code in this book and he explained it clearly in this informative children text. At the back, children can try to feel the alphabet and numbers from 1-10. This is can be an excellent choice for children to understand the hard and difficult lives of blind people, they also will learn from Louis’s story to be determined and strong when they encounter any difficulty that may prevent them from achieving their dreams. ( )

This book is about the life of Louis Braille. It informs readers about how he came to be blind, how he dealt with it, and how he made something out of his disability. This book has a lot of important history in it. It mentions other ways people would communicate and be educated who were blind. Louis Braille attends school despite his disability. He later goes on to create a new way to read, write, and communicate called Braille. Later, Helen Keller is even mentioned stating how heroic Louis is. At the end of the book there is the alphabet and numbers 1-10 in Braille for readers to see what it's like. ( )