Synopsis
A biography of the modest Frenchman who, after being blinded at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
Review
RUSSELL FREEDMAN received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography. He is also the recipient of three Newbery Honors, a National Humanities Medal, the Sibert Medal, the Orbis Pictus Award, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and was selected to give the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City and travels widely to research his books.
Born in New Hampshire and raised in Vermont, Kate Kiesler began painting at an early age. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and now paints and illustrates full-time. Kate paints with oils, and her rich style has been highly praised. Kate Kiesler has illustrated numerous picture books, including The Great Frog Race and Other Poems. She lives in Frisco, Colorado.
Gr. 4^-8. More than 170 years ago, a blind French boy at age 15 invented a system of raised dots on paper that allows the sightless to read and write. Without melodrama, Freedman tells the momentous story in quiet chapters in his best plain style, making the facts immediate and personal. At age 3, Louis Braille was blinded in an accident with a knife. From the age of 12, he worked doggedly, sometimes secretly through the night at a special school in Paris, punching dots on paper, trying to develop a simple code for the alphabet that the blind could read with their fingertips. Woven into the story is an awareness of how the blind child experiences the world, what he remembers. Tension mounts as he refuses to be discouraged by technical and bureaucratic setbacks, until eventually he proves his system to his school and finally to the world. The handsome book design is clear and open. A diagram explains how the Braille alphabet works, and Kate Kessler's full-page shaded pencil illustrations are part of the understated poignant drama. But what about documentation? Is the opening chapter partially fictionalized? No sources are given for the facts and quotes throughout the book, and there's no bibliography. Hazel Rochman
Out of Darkness
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.
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."
Louis Braille
Biography of the blind French boy who invented the Braille alphabet when he was only fifteen.
Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Louis Braille . New York: Holiday House, 1998. This read-aloud picture book biography traces Louis's life and gives important information about braille. Freedman , Russell . Out of Darkness: The Story of ..."
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Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea.
Louis Braille : The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind. New York: Scholastic, 1971. * Donaldson, Madeline. Louis Braille . Minneapolis: Lerner, 2007. * Freedman , Russell . Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille ."
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Freedman , Russell . Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille . New York: Clarion Books, 1997. Green, Robert. Tutankhamun. New York: Franklin Watts, 1996. Guttmacher, Peter. Crazy Horse. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994."
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Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille , by Russell Freedman (1997). This well-written chapter book transports readers to the early 1800s when people who were blind usually became beggars. It describes how Louis Braille succeeded in ..."
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Literature Connection— Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman This informative book tells the story of a boy who lost his sight when he was only three years old. Students will enjoy learning about how one boy ..."
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24 TM The following bibliography gives additional information on the books featured on Activity Book pages 34-36 . Adler , David ( 1997 ) . ... Freedman , Russell ( 1997 ) . Out of Darkness : The Story of Louis Braille ."
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By Margaret Frith Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman Louis Braille : A Touch of Genius by C. Michael Mellor After you've read the book , tell your class about Louis Braille . Why was he blind?"
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Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman (New York: Clarion Books, 1999). A biography of nineteenth-century Frenchman Louis Braille . When he was three years old, Braille lost his sight."
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DS FREEDMAN , RUSSELL Out of Darkness : The Story of Louis Braille ; illus . by Kate Kiesler . Clarion , 1997 81p ISBN 0-395-77516-7 $ 15.95 R Gr . 3-6 Louis Braille is a significant historical figure and one of the classic subjects of ..."
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GERM : Familiarize your students with the Braille alphabet . Russell Freedman's Out of Darkness : The Story of Louis Braille is a longer , more detailed biography . Take advantage of the more than two dozen titles in Adler's A Picture ..."
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THE SHORTEST DAY : CELEBRATING THE WINTER SOLSTICE ( Gr . 1-4 ) By Wendy Pfeffer , illustrated by Jesse Reisch . Dutton , 2003 ; 40 pages ; $ 17.99 . Instructive but easy to understand , this engaging picture book , describing the ..."
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Booklist Includes bibliographical references Braille , Louis , 1809-1852 Freedman , Russell . Out of darkness : the story of Louis Braille ; illustrated by Kate Kiesler . Clarion Bks . 1997 81p il $ 15.95 92 1. Blind ISBN 0-395-77516-7 ..."
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