DK Braille It Can't Be True!

I LOVE this book. It had pictures with raised edges for those with sight impairments. Printed and braille words. We bought as part of enrichment for learning about braille with our sighted young girls.

I'm sighted and in the process of learning Braille. This book has been a godsend for that! I'm in the stage where I know the letters. But I'm still struggling to learn numbers and punctuation, and haven't gotten to shortened words and contractions yet. This book has both regular print and Braille on each page, so I can feel along as I read. (And it's easy to cover up the print and only use the Braille, when I'm ready for that.) There are lots of numbers and lots of punctuation to practice on, while words like "the" and "and" are still spelled out. The content is actually INTERESTING, too! I've learned quite a bit! And the illustrations are wonderful too, all raised so they can be felt as well as seen. (I particularly love the illustration showing how many Earths can fit into Jupiter.)

My grandson will love this! It is large so easier for him to read Braille. Very interesting to look at with pictures and surprising facts! I'm happy with this purchase!

I bought this book for a ten-year-old boy who is blind. I was filling children's wish lists for a charity and knew nothing about the children other than their age and gender. The book is fantastic. The pages have both braille and large print, and the photos are large and textured. My 8-year-old granddaughter, who has perfect vision, loved the book because of the content and the great pictures. I highly recommend it for children who are 8 to 12 years old.

I bought this book as a gift for my 13 year old niece's birthday. She is blind and has autism, so her gifts are often unique for her abilities and interests. Children's braille books are hard to find, and usually don't include any sort of "pictures", unless they are intended for toddlers. This book has English and braille, so my niece can read it by herself, or Mom and dad can read it to her. My brother in law was almost as excited about this gift as his daughter, because the fun facts are interesting for older kids and adults too. The pictures outline the shapes in different textures, so the blind reader can still enjoy them and better understand the comparisons. I wish DK Braille would make more books like this, I would buy them all!

Fun facts for the braille reader to learn.

The shapes and different textures in the DK Braille books are terrific! I use them for two purposes: As an adult, whose ability to see was removed due to cancer, at age two, pictures were not something to which I was exposed! I was fascinated with drawing on a raised-line drawing board, and enthralled when a braille book would say that something was in she shape of a "u" "V" "S" or "o" and have a raised depiction of the letter at the bottom of the page. Sometimes, we were fortunate enough to have actual raised drawings of systems, suchas a sewer system, in a science book, or old counting symbols in a math book. Owning anything that had these tactile qualities was impossible!Today, I study the DK Braille books and reminisce about how wonderful they would have been while growing up. But, I also learn a lot about depicting three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional space. I learned raised print at an early age, and would pass printed notes to my sighted classmates! Learning print was never a requirement, but an overwhelming strong desire!Now, I use these books to teach my grandchildren to recognize and appreciate using touch with and without visually looking at the picture.It was actually my sighted librarian daughter-in-law who turned me on to the DK Braille books, and I was ecstatic to find several on Amazon!Don't be fooled by the claim that they are designed for blind children. They are for anyone who wishes to learn and teach others about the neglected sense of touch, and the wonders it brings to those who are distracted by only visual perception is real. I often say that "seeing is believing, but vision is deceiving."

My mother is blind, and while she uses braille, she doesn't always do so consistently. She was looking for new practice material to keep her skills up. I thought the braille was a bit 'low' and she said it was not the usual braille I was accustomed to seeing and punching out, but she was able to read it. She mentioned that there seemed to be a little mixing of grades, but it was a good challenge for her. She seems very pleased with it. The book does have textured pages, so the reader can feel shapes and sizes of things. The braille is on different parts of the pages, she mentioned she has to find the section on the page and figure out where it starts, but this doesn't seem to deter her. Very pleased.