Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille-a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet.**Winner of a Schneider Family Book Award!** Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet-a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today. Award-winning writer Jen Bryant tells Braille's i…
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Weitere Autoren: Kulikov, Boris
- ISBN: 978-0-449-81337-9
- EAN: 9780449813379
- Produktnummer: 19782069
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 40 S.
- Ausstattung: Bilderbuch
- Sonstiges: Ab 4 - 8 J.
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Jen Bryant has published poetry, biographies, picture books, and fiction for young readers. Her picture-book-biography collaborations with Melissa Sweet-A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, and A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin-have all won multiple awards. Jen lives with her family in southeastern Pennsylvania. You can read more about her at JenBryant.com. Boris Kulikov graduated from the Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema in St. Petersburg, Russia. Since 1997 he's been living and working as an illustrator in Brooklyn, New York. His many acclaimed books include Papa's Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and the Max books (Max's Words, Max's Castle, Max's Dragon, Max's Math) by Kate Banks. You can find him at BorisKulikov.com.
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