[blparent] Seedlings Verses NBPBooks

[Elizabeth Cooks]

You are right, Debbie, the books for older children produced by Seedlings 
don't have pictures, but the board books do.  The same is mostly true for 
NLS and Twin Vision books as well.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deborah Kent Stein" <dkent5817 at att.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Seedlings Verses NBPBooks


>
>
> 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
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>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> What, if any, are the differences between Seedlings books and NBP's 
>> books?
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
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