[blparent] Braille Books

Tue Aug 14 23:24:17 UTC 2012

Me too mine just started head start and I want to be able to help with 
teaching of letters and things like that since I was never taught mine. 
Where can I get print and Braille letters for very little money?
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Braille Books


> I'd be very interested in these cloth books if you have the ladies 
> information.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Lisamaria Martinez
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:15 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Braille Books
>
> I love the Beula Reimer Legacy, BRL site. I wish it was around when I was 
> a kid growing up. It is sooooo afordable and really, so many mainstream 
> books can be found at the site. I need to go and check it out. I haven't 
> been their for a while. Between the BRL site and the National Braille 
> Press, Erik can't avoid being an avid book reader.
> People on BART marvel at how interested he is in books and how he flips 
> the pages around and reads on the train.
>
> a few weekends ago I went to a state fair and found these awesome handmaid 
> cloth books. They came in shapes of little brief cases or backpacks. You 
> open them up and there are all sorts of cool things your kids can do. we 
> got Erik a book to teach shapes and colors. The shapes are attached by 
> velcro and the colors are embroidered so you can read the color on each 
> page. And of course, the shapes are tactile. They had other books that 
> taught the ABC's which were totally tactile, numbers, animals, etc. I'll 
> find the business card and share with the list.
>
> On 8/10/12, Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
>> Hi.  I'll make up a list of what I have when I get a chance, but I got
>> a work deadline dropped in my lap.  It happens a lot this time of year.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of
>> Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal
>> talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.--Stephen
>> Jay Gould -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lisamaria Martinez
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 2:21 PM
>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Braille Books
>>
>> Oh, oh, oh! Me too. I'd love to have some of your books. and, also be
>> happy to pay for them. Perhaps, you can ship one box to Ronit or I and
>> we can divvy up the books. we live close enough, have sons the same
>> age, and instead of shipping off 2 boxes you can send one.
>>
>> Lisamaria
>>
>> On 8/8/12, Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
>>> Ronit, I will make a list of the books I have and rustle up a box to
>>> ship them in.  I'm sure I could ship them Free Matter for the Blind.
>>> I won't ask anything in payment except if you want to pitch in a
>>> little to get my daughter started on the next level of books.  The
>>> Beulah Reimer Legacy site is absolutely awesome for popular preschool
>>> books like Disney Princesses and Frog and Toad.  I'm excited because
>>> I've never seen mainstream books with both print and braille for more
>>> advanced readers.  Thanks, Peggy!
>>>
>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>
>>> Knocking me down is the easy part. If you want to keep me there,
>>> you're going to need some backup.--(anonymous) -----Original
>>> Message-----
>>> From: Ronit Ovadia Mazzoni
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 10:26 AM
>>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Braille Books
>>>
>>> Hi jo elizabeth, I would love to take some of those brsille board
>>> books off your hands, maybe you could let me know some of what you
>>> have and we can go from there? Write me off list and I would be happy
>>> to pay you for them too.
>>> Ronit
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>>>
>>> Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks, Peggy, for the Web site where I can get print/braille books.
>>> If anyone would be interested in inheriting some braille board books
>>> from Seedlings, I’ve got thirty or forty of them, and most are still
>>> in nearly perfect condition. Rather than donating them to a local
>>> school or something, I think it would be better to give them to
>>> someone who can take advantage of the braille.
>>>
>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>
>>> Knocking me down is the easy part. If you want to keep me there,
>>> you're going to need some backup.--(anonymous)
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