(3) K-3 Illustrated by Boris Kulikov. This first-person picture-book biography imagines (sometimes more successfully than others) what it felt like to be young Louis Braille, beginning with the accident at age three that slowly blinded him and ending with his invention, at fifteen, of the ingenious six-cell raised-dot reading and writing system for the blind. Louis's compelling story is told in a lively and intimate text, abetted by warm mixed-media illustrations.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2016

(4) K-3 Transportation and Communication series. A blandly written, somewhat incomplete text describes some of the equipment used for reading and writing in Braille and explains how Louis Braille created this system. The book is liberally illustrated with color photos of blind individuals (some well-known) and two-dimensional examples of Braille letters and numbers. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta