ClearVision's New 'Touchlines' Collection

To tie in with the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London 2012, ClearVision is adding over 200 new books on a sport, activity and healthy living theme to its UK postal library of children's books in print and braille or Moon. This new Touchlines collection has been awarded the Inspire Mark: the badge of the London 2012 Inspire Programme.

The ClearVision children's braille library's Touchlines project aims to involve children with little or no sight in the excitement of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and to inspire them to be as physically active as they can be.

The Touchlines collection includes new children's books for touch readers at all levels, from pre-school novelty board books to challenging stories and biographies for newly-fluent readers.

ClearVision is also adding to the library twenty copies of a new specially designed book about the nine paralympic sports open to totally blind athletes. Mandeville's Book of Sports includes embossed tactile versions of the official Paralympic pictograms, as well as information in braille on the featured sports. This book has been designed in collaboration with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Appropriate organisations anywhere in the world can use the files to make tactile copies of Mandeville's Book of Sports for the children they work with, using their own embosser or swell paper fuser. We hope this will help young braille readers worldwide to share in the excitement of London 2012. For more information contact info@clearvisionproject.org.

The Touchlines project is funded by the charity VICTA: Supporting blind and partially sighted children across the UK www.victa.org.uk.