Seedlings Braille Books

The Spring Seedling Braille Books Catalog arrived this week.

If you are not familiar with Seedlings, they have books of all kinds from children to adults. It is a non-profit organization. The donations received help produce brailled books. Their goal is to promote literacy for blind/visually impaired children with high quality brailled books at low costs. They are just like the books you buy in Barnes and Noble with the added exception that the brailled story is on each page too. If you are ever looking for a unique gift for someone, especially kids, these are great books to give as gifts.

Ivey has several if you ever want to 'read' them.
You can go to http://www.seedlings.org/.

They could make great Easter basket gifts. You could introduce your family to braille with a book about the ABC's! At some point, we will all want to to sit with Ivey and read a book WITH her - and for her, that book will be brailled. Way down the road right now, but we all have to get a head start. Because of Ivey we are all becoming a little more worldly and SMART, even if we weren't expecting to -

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Paula said…

I really would like to bring her gift by...I think she would like it! :)

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