Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind

We homeschool our 6 and 4 year old daughters and we’re going over the 5 senses. I thought it’d be a good time to talk about how life would be if we didn’t have some of them and it led me to discover this 80 page book for a read aloud. My kids do not have spectacular attention spans and we read this book in TWO sessions! It was phenomenal! This book had just enough facts and so much detail in its small quantity of pages. I actually cried during the last chapter (haha—husband was laughing at me). The kids had a lot of questions and really retained Louis Braille’s story. I’m one happy mama with the experience this book gave us. There was one part I had to change/bluff but it was only one sentence (Louis used an expression saying he’d might like to kill himself if it’s rejected’ or something of the like but that’s an anomaly and there were no other sensitive materials within the book. We were cheering on Louis through the whole thing. Short sweet inspirational and captivating ♥️

Excellent book

Very enjoyable

interesting

Good book at the level of 7-9 years olds interested in biographies. My year 5 class have enjoyed reading it and learning about this amazing boy.