Braille books for children

kingfisherblue

Dorking Kindersley have published five books in Braille for children.

Counting and Shapes are £9.99 each.

Animals and On The Move are £15.99 each.

It Can't Be True is £19.99.

They're brightly coloured and well illustrated. They're written in English with Braille underneath. I've bought Counting, and each page has different tactile pictures on. The sticky worms are especially good

It's good to see a mainstream publisher finally showing an interest in books that are appealing to children with visual impairments. The books are well designed and I found them very appealing.

Hope this helps someone.

teddysmum

I saw this book in the children's section of our public library,yesterday.


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kingfisherblue

Mole's Sunrise is a book that is very descriptive, encouraging children to build pictures in their minds. It's only at the end that you find out that Mole is blind. I read it to my Brownies, while they have their eyes closed.

PasturesNew

About 40 years ago I'd often see my blind neighbour sitting on the bus with his braille newspaper. He'd have it on his lap to read it, obviously as he didn't need to hold it up as he was utterly blind.

He's the only person I've ever seen reading braille.

Tigsteroonie

Fantastic I couldn't help myself, I had to check their Braille in the demo pages on the DK website, even though they'll have RNIB proofreaders doing it for them - it's habit, I even still read paracetamol packets to check them!!

kingfisherblue

You can read Braille? I'm impressed. It's so difficult to feel the differences between the letters.

I've only seen people on TV read it.

Tigsteroonie

kingfisherblue wrote: »

You can read Braille? I'm impressed. It's so difficult to feel the differences between the letters.

I have an advantage - I can use my eyes I was a transcriber for RNIB for four years, specialising in converting maths & computer books but we all had a hand in less specialist material like novels, magazines (Radio Times!), cookery books etc. I remember when the first SATs papers came out, having to do those ...

I still own a small hand-frame & punch, now that's an art as you're effectively writing Braille backwards.

Savvy_Sue

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I have an advantage - I can use my eyes I was a transcriber for RNIB for four years, specialising in converting maths & computer books but we all had a hand in less specialist material like novels, magazines (Radio Times!), cookery books etc. I remember when the first SATs papers came out, having to do those ...

Woohoo! I was one of their sighted proofreaders when they first moved the Braille production dept. One day my boss said "There's a rumour you can read Hebrew." "Yup, a bit." "How do you fancy transcribing a Braille exam paper?" "Sure, I'll give that a go."

A bit of a challenge, but they found a delightful elderly blind chap to proofread with me. He was thrilled to find I hadn't just transcribed mechanically (this set of squiggly lines = this combination of dots), and proceeded to SING what I'd transcribed back to me. I really really hoped what he was singing was what I was scrambling to read, but he was very happy: usually there were lots of mistakes to correct and it was very time-consuming, as it was it was nearly perfect.

I will look out for the DK books. I too try to read any Braille I find, but I'm very rusty these days ...

kingfisherblue

I'm still impressed Tigs, and with you too, Sue.

I contacted our Carer's Centre to let them know about the books, in case it was useful to anyone. Today I've received an email sent to all parent carers, giving the information. Hopefully it will help someone. I've always loved sharing books with my children.

teddysmum

My brother-in-law suddenly went blind many years ago and I found it impossible to differentiate between the dot arrangements on the food labels that he made with his brailler gadget.


I'd find it impossible,nowadays, having lost some of my touch sensation.