English Titles in Alternate Formats

The following titles are available from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Library in Toronto. The original print format has been transcribed into braille, and the print and braille formats have been bound together so that a visually impaired parent can read with a sighted child and vice versa.

Contracted Print-Braille

LIGHTS FOR GITA
RACHNA GILMORE
PB64742
AGES 5 TO 8

Gita celebrates the festival of Divali in Canada for the first time.
Also available in uncontracted print-braille (PI00060).

Braille

KAP-SUNG FERRIS
FRANCES DUNCAN
BR20931
AGES 10 TO 14

As Kim, a Korean-born child who had been adopted by a Canadian family, approaches her teens, she must deal with the usual adolescent problems.

STORM CHILD
BRENDA BELLINGHAM
BR61678
AGES 10 TO 13

Isobel, a 12-year-old girl whose father is a Scottish farmer and whose mother is a Peigan Indian, must come to terms with her heritage.

Also available on audio cassette (RC08862).

Audio Cassette

BINKY AND THE BAMBOO BRUSH
ADELLE LAROUCHE
RC05825
AGES 7 TO 10

Binky lives above his father’s store in Vancouver’s Chinatown. He does not like going to Chinese school until he is given his artist grandfather’s bamboo brush.

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