Long Island Talking Book Library has a small collection of print-braille books (sometimes called "twin vision books") for children. These books include the regular print edition of the book with braille overlays. They can be used by blind parents with sighted children, or sighted parents with blind children, or blind and sighted children together. They may also be used by sighted children who want to see what their favorite books look like in braille. In addition, LITBL has a special collection of tactile print-braille picture books for young blind children, and of Expectations, an annual braille anthology of current children's literature. Print-braille books, tactile print-braille picture books, and Expectations may be borrowed on inter-library loan through your local public library. The following titles are available:

Print-Braille Books

• ABC
• ABC science experiments
• Angus and the cat
• Are you my mother?
• The big world and the little house
• The city and country Mother Goose
• The cow who fell in the canal
• Follow the wind
• Going barefoot
• The golden apple a story
• Hi, new baby a book to help your child learn ab
• Hide and seek fog
• The horse who lived upstairs
• Hosie's alphabet
• How babies are made
• How do I feel?
• How do I go? a story with pictures
• If I built a village
• Is it hard? Is it easy?
• James and the rain
• The judge an untrue tale
• Kip Van Wrinkle
• The kittens' ABC verse and pictures
• The little island
• Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel
• The mother deer
• My five senses
• Noisy book
• The snake that sneezed
• The song of the day birds and the night birds
• Splish splash!
• Tell me a Mitzi
• The three wishes
• Umbrella
• Who's in the egg?
• The zoo in my garden story and pictures

Tactile Print-Braille Picture Books

These books for young children feature print-braille text and raised plastic illustrations.

The Blue Balloon

The Book About Me

Bumpy Rolls Away

The Caterpillar

Geraldine's Blanket

Giggly-Wiggly Snickety-Snick (in process)

Gobs of Gum

Hands -on Alphabet Book

Hands-on Number Book

Jellybean Jungle (in process)

Jennifer's Messes

The Longest Noodle

Redbirds

Roly Goes Exploring

Roly-Poly Man

Silly Squiggles

Something Special

That Terrible Awful Day

That's Not My Bear

Thingamig (in process)

Expectations

Expectations is an annual anthology of current children's literature in braille. These are generally text-only for older children, although there are some raised line and/or scented drawings. The SCLS/LITBL collection begins with the 1987 edition.

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