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BAMBI is a newly formed group aiming to promote the use of the two tactile reading systems currently in use in the UK. The two systems are Braille and Moon.

Most people have heard of Braille as a system of touch reading formed by dots, but are unaware that over the last twenty years the teaching of this system has been sadly neglected, so much so that there are less than 10,000 readers in the UK.

The other system, Moon, is a little-known system that, although now read by only some 600 people in the UK, is more easily read by people who do not have the sensitivity in their fingers to read Braille.

Until recently the cost of producing Moon was expensive as each letter shape had to be formed individually using a punch and die. However, a new system has been developed using dots used in Braille to form the shapes used in Moon.

BAMBI aims to encourage the learning and use of both systems by producing Braille and Moon books following the courses available in the UK. It is intended to make these books available free of charge to groups and individuals learning either system.

BAMBI are looking for stories and poems to include in their books. If you would like to allow them to use any of your work they will be only too pleased to receive all that you care to send. The authors of all stories and poems will, of course, be acknowledged.

BAMBI will be pleased to receive your work in print, sent by post to the address below. Alternatively, work can be sent by email to the email address also below.

Financial contributions towards the provision of a wire-binding machine and an Index Braille embosser plus all the consumables are equally welcome.

Can you help with this venture?

Book targets:

BRAILLE

To produce Braille books at

- Grade 1
- At each unit level of Grade 2, following the "Fingerprint" Braille course
- Full Grade 2
- Children's stories in Grade 1 and Grade 2 (both for children to read, and for the visually impaired to read to children)
- Combined print/Braille children's books

MOON

- To produce Moon books (wherever possible as for Braille) following the Moon series of teaching books

Contact details:

Norman Ellis
BAMBI
53 Cornel
Amington
Tamworth
Staffs B77 4EF
Tel: 01827 703547
Email: n.ellis@ntlworld.com

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