I really enjoyed reading this book. I had no idea about this topic before, so I was able to learn a lot about the invention of braille. The illustrations and french words really added to the story. ( )

Longer than most of the books I read during a storytime, but these children were older. However, I think I lost them 10 minutes into the book. Probably wouldn't recommend for storytime, but it's an excellent book. ( )

I find it a bit ironic that a book about Louis Braille doesn't have any braille in it... ( )

Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was determined to live like everyone else, and more than anything he wanted to be able to read. So he invented his own alphabet!

Boris Kulikov appropriately uses light and dark in this book of a boy, Loius Braille, who at the age of 5 becomes blind from an infected eye injury. Told from a child's point of view, this biography is not romanticized although the illustrations done in pastel shades and soft, impressionistic cross-hatching do give a tone of the French Romantic era during which Louis Braille lived. Inventive and determined, readers follow what it must have felt like to become blind and create a life full and rich but never assuming he couldn't have blind that which seeing people have: books.