Anita's Charity: 5% of All Proceeds of this Book will go to "National Braille Press"

     Literacy: to many, it's simply assumed and yet, here in America, a full 80% of blind schoolchildren cannot read braille. The reasons are many, but the reality is crystal clear: thousands of people in this country are denied access to these basic tools of literacy.


The Center for Braille Innovation

To ensure that blind children have the tools they need, National Braille Press developed the Center for Braille Innovation, a hub for imaginative new ideas, inventive tools, and professional training and expertise.

The Center for Braille Innovation addresses the shortage of high quality braille textbooks and educational materials, tactile images which help blind children explore visual imagery by hand, and affordable technology that is the key to future success.

Help a blind child succeed. Support the Center for Braille Innovation.

Hands On! Books for Blind Children National Braille Press helps blind children and adults achieve self-sufficiency and independence by publishing braille books and by advocating for literacy - because the single most important gateway to opportunity is the ability to read and write. We produce braille storybooks, textbooks, novels, and information on topics from computers to healthcare.

Hands On! Programs:

Bumpy Basics: Board Books for Toddlers, an introduction to braille for pre-readers. See one of our board books here.

ReadBooks! Because Braille Matters, a family outreach program to teach parents and children about the power of braille literacy.

Children's Braille Book Club, a monthly club featuring a print/braille storybook so parents and children can develop a love of reading together.

Braille Books for Young Adults, popular novels, like the Harry Potter series, are produced in braille to encourage lifelong literacy.

Through Hands On! Books for Blind Children you can ensure that every child has the right to read! Help us today!


Lifelong Literacy

Blind people want and need the same reading choices as sighted people. Our braille materials help blind readers enjoy daily life, explore new careers, stay current with cultural and political issues, maintain their health, and grow in interpersonal relationships. Support a lifetime of learning.

I have been blind since birth and have always loved to read. Both of my children are also blind, and I have been doing whatever I can, by any gentle, loving, and legal means necessary, to introduce them both to the power of reading and learning.