O'Connor, Barbara.

The World at his fingertips : a story about Louis Braille / by Barbara O'Connor ; illustrations by Rochelle Draper. - Minneapolis, Minn. : Carolrhoda Books, c1997. - 64 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - A Carolrhoda creative minds biography . - A Carolrhoda creative minds book .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 60) and index.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who created the dot system of reading and writing that is now used by the blind throughout the world.

ISBN: 1575050528

LCCN: 96049950 /AC

Subjects--Personal Names:
Braille, Louis, 1809-1852 --Juvenile literature.
Braille, Louis, 1809-1852.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Blind teachers--Biography--Juvenile literature.--France
Braille--Juvenile literature.
Blind.
Teachers.
Physically handicapped.
Braille.

LC Class. No.: HV1624.B64 / O26 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 686.2/82/092 B