[blparent] Seedlings Verses NBPBooks

[Deborah Kent Stein]

Hi, Jennifer,

Both Seedlings and National Braille Press have wonderful programs providing 
children's books.  NBP has a  print/Braille children's book-of-the-month 
club.  You receive monthly notices of the book that will be available, but 
there's no obligation to purchase any given number of books.  The books are 
sold at the same price as the ink-print versions.  Braille pages on clear 
plastic are placed between the original print pages, so the child can see 
the print and the pictures.  There are usually picture descriptions in 
Braille as well.  NBP has also produced some print/Braille "board books" for 
very small children.

Seedlings sells Braille books and some print/Braille books, i.e., the print 
text is on the same page as the Braille text, but unless things have changed 
in the last few years, their books don't have pictures.  They're also more 
expensive than the NBP books.  NBP does an incredible job of getting 
publishers to donate copies of their books to the program, and they also do 
extraordinary amounts of fundraising to defray the cost to subscribers. 
Seedlings is a much smaller-scale operation and they are amazingly good at 
producing lots of books with their limited resources.

Other sources of print/Braille books are Twin Vision and NLS.  The Twin 
Vision Books are produced by the American Action Fund for the Blind, which 
is connected with NFB.  NLS has a very large collection of print/Braille 
books that can be borrowed.  As far as I know they have never compiled a 
separate list of their print/Braille offerings, so you have to look up 
specific titles or authors to find them.  I think APH also has some 
print/Braille titles for sale, so you might check their catalog too.  Their 
books tend to be expensive but very sturdy.

Debbie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer Bazer" <jhipp25 at sc.rr.com>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 8:54 AM
Subject: [blparent] Seedlings Verses NBPBooks


> Hello List,
>
> What, if any, are the differences between Seedlings books and NBP's books?
>
> Thanks for your help!
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> blparent:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/dkent5817%40worldnet.att.net