An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braillea 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 alphabeta 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 Brailles inspiring story with a lively and accessible text, filled with the sounds, the smells, and the touch of Louiss world. Boris Kulikovs inspired paintings help readers to understand what Louis lost, and what he was determined to gain back through books. An authors note and additional resources at the end of the book complement the simple story and offer more information for parents and teachers.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers .

Jen Bryant is the author of the Caldecott Honor-winning picture book River of Words and many other picture books for children. Cannaday Chapman is an illustrator whose work has been featured in the New York Times and on the cover of The New Yorker. Feed Your Mind is his first picture book. Kathleen Krull, the noted social historian, lives in San Diego, California. Boris Kulikov, the illustrator of the series, lives in New York City.