Louis Braille, 9781836007401
Hardcover
Blindness sparked brilliance: discover the boy who invented Braille.
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    32 pages

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    9 September 2025

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Summary

Louis Braille: A Dotted Dream

Little People, BIG DREAMS Louis Braille explores the life of the remarkable man behind Braille, the tactile reading and writing system.

Little Louis was a curious child - always exploring and having adventures. Then one day, while playing in his father’s workshop, he had an accident with a tool and eventually lost sight in both eyes. It was tricky to get used to, but with help from his family and a local teacher, Louis continued to learn and exp…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781836007401
ISBN-10:183600740X
Series:Little People, BIG DREAMS
Author:Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Ana Albero
Publisher:Quarto Publishing PLC
Imprint:Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:32
Release Date:9 September 2025
Weight:500g
Dimensions:240mm x 195mm
About The Author

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara, born in Barcelona, Spain, is a writer and creative director in constant search of new concepts for children’s books. In 2014, she created a book for her two twin nieces for their birthday, which shortly thereafter became the first book in the Little People, BIG DREAMS series. This multimillion-copy bestselling series of picture books explores the lives of outstanding people. From Mahatma Gandhi to Aretha Franklin, to Prince, Sánchez Vegara researches complex careers and makes them accessible to young children, with her unique and mindful style of writing. She works with a diverse team of illustrators to make each book lively, eye-catching and motivating. Working for more than fifteen years for clients in top advertising agencies, her books combine creativity with learning, aiming to establish a new and fresh relationship between children and pop culture.

Ana Albero was born in Alicante, Spain. She studied Visual Communication at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, and illustration at the University of the Arts Berlin. She is now based in Berlin, where she works primarily in graphite and colored pencil creating vibrant textured images inspired by old pictures and movies. She is the illustrator of Coco Chanel, David Bowie, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, David Hockney, Stan Lee and Louis Braille from the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series.

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