'Harry' in Braille
By Staff -- School Library Journal, 9/1/2007
The Braille version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (National Braille Press) was available at the same time as the printed version—a first in publishing history for a popular children’s book.
Scholastic, J. K. Rowling’s U.S. publisher, gave an advanced copy of the final book to the National Braille Press two weeks early, and employees then worked to get the Braille version ready for its midnight July 20 release—with most of that work performed by hand. “That’s almost unheard of,” says Elizabeth Hart, a library technical assistant at the Fremont-based California School for the Blind.
