Bryant, Jen Six Dots:
A Story of Young Louis Braille
Illustrated by Boris Kulikov PICTURE
BOOK Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. $17.99 Content: G.
When Louis was five years old, he had an accident that made him blind in
one eye. An infection spread to his
other eye, rendering him completely blind.
Louis was an intelligent boy who hungered for reading and writing. When he couldn’t find any satisfying
solutions for his need for knowledge, he begged his family to let him go away
to school. While at the Royal School for
the Blind, Louis was still not satisfied with the limits of his reading, so over
years he invented the system we know as braille.
This book is a great succinct biography about
Louis Braille’s early years. The
illustrations are muted and not very colorful.
At the end of the book there is a question and answer section about
Louis. Also there is a picture of the
whole braille alphabet which is fun to use.
EL (K-3) – ADVISABLE. Reviewer,
C. Peterson.
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1 comment:
Its too bad the dots are not raised like true braille. I passed on this book because of that.
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