Great for helping kids (and adults!) understand what it is to be blind. The text is accompanied by raised Braille lettering, and the pictures are raised as well, so children can "read" with their fingertips. When I was in fifth grade we read a book about a blind boy and I taught myself Braille an...
A truly unique and mysterious book for the sighted and blind. It can only give you a ambiguous sense of what it must be like to experience the world when it is void of colour. In conjunction, it must be mystifying for the blind to experience colour in tecture. A truly fascinating book to obser...
This book is amazing! Each page has a short description of how colors can be described in new and different ways. It's pretty much poetry going on here.The illustrations are printed glossy black on the more matte black pages, and you can feel the difference in texture and height. Each page also i...
The World of Touch.This extraordinary children's book is a true work of art, a kind of meeting ground for the vision impaired and sighted children alike. Author Menena Cottin and artist Rosanna Faria, both from Venezuela, collaborated on the creation of this new approach to learning. The Black ...
I absolutely love Menena Cottin's "The Black Book of Colors." When I picked it up to read, I was confused that all the pagers were black, as the title has the word "color" in it. As I began reading it, though, I was captivated. It views color through the eyes of a blind boy named Thomas. It u...