The Secret Code

Title The Secret Code
Author: Dana Meachen Rau
Illustrator: Bari Weissman
Genre: Fiction


The Secret Code is about a boy who is blind, and explains to his friend how he uses braille to read. This is not only a great book to boost a special needs kids confidence, but it is also an entertaining book for the teacher to read. The book teaches kids without disabilities how to understand and respect the ones that do live with special needs. The Secret Code goes through the alphabet and shows what each letter looks like in braille. I think this would be a great book to read to a first grade class because it gives the children a different outlook for people who are blind. The blind boy expresses how he thinks it is cool that he can read in the dark. This shows kids that there is an upside to everything.

I would read this to a first grade classroom to teach them that there are all different types of learning and that it is okay to be different! Maybe a child who is deaf or blind could teach children without that disability to use sign language or read by using braille.