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Braille Periodicals
These are Braille magazines in the Library of Congress program available from the Braille and Talking Book Library in Phoenix. Give them a call at 1-800-255-5578. Eligible patrons may sign up for Web-Braille through the library that handles their braille magazine subscriptions.
Boys' Life (for children and teens, monthly)
Braille Book Review (bimonthly)
Braille Chess Magazine (British quarterly)
Braille Music Magazine (British monthly)
Conundrum (British monthly)
Cooking Light (10 issues)
ESPN: The Magazine (biweekly)
Harper's (literary; monthly)
Health Newsletters, includes:
- Harvard Health Letter (monthly)
- Mayo Clinic Health Letter (monthly)
- University of California at Berkeley Wellness Letter (monthly)
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine (monthly)
Ladies' Home Journal (monthly)
Martha Stewart Living (home and entertaining; 10 issues)
Muse (for children; 10 issues)
The Musical Mainstream (quarterly)
National Geographic (monthly)
The New York Times Book Review (weekly)
The New York Times Large Type Weekly (weekly)
News (NLS quarterly)
Parenting Early Years (monthly)
Parenting School Years (monthly)
PC World (personal computing; monthly)
Playboy (monthly)
Poetry (monthly)
Popular Communications (monthly)
Popular Mechanics (monthly)
Popular Music Lead Sheets (irregular)
Rolling Stone (popular culture; 26 issues)
Science News (weekly)
Seventeen (for teens; monthly)
Short Stories (British monthly)
Spider: The Magazine for Children (monthly)
Stone Soup (children's writings; 6 issues)
Update (NLS quarterly)
The following sports schedules are also available in Braille format from the Braille and Talking Book Library:
American Baseball League Schedule
National Baseball League Schedule
National Basketball Association Schedule
National Football League Schedule
National Hockey League Schedule
Women's National Basketball Association Schedule
The American Printing House for the Blind, (502) 895-2405 or (800) 223-1839, offers several publications available from September through May. My Weekly Reader is a scholastic journal for grades 2-6 that focuses on current events. Know Your World Extra! is geared to youngsters 10-16 with reading difficulties. Others also available: Current Events and Current Science. For subscription information, write or call the American Printing House for the Blind.
Christian Record Services, (402) 488-0981, has two quarterly Braille magazines available free of charge. Children's Friend has stories for children and Young and Alive, a publication for young adults, contains adventure fiction and devotional articles.
The Lutheran Library for the Blind, (314) 965-9000 or (800) 433-3954, offers four publications that are available free of charge. Happy Times is a monthly magazine of religious articles and fiction for children ages 6-8. My Pleasure, also available monthly, contains stories for ages 9-12. My Devotions has a month's worth of daily devotionals for ages 8-13. Teen Time is published 8 times a year and contains religious stories for young adults.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (801) 240-3225 or (800) 537-5971, offers two publications. The Friend is a monthly magazine of religious articles, poems, songs and stories for children under twelve. The New Era is geared for youngsters twelve and up. There is no charge for subscriptions, but a donation is requested.
Check out some pay subscriptions to commercial Braille magazines available through Amazon. At this time these titles are available, but check the link to Amazon for up-to-date availability:
- Ready Steady Read Grade 2 Braille - 12 issues/12 months
- Sapajou - Braille Integral - 24 issues/12 months
- Comme Les Autres - Braille Edition - 4 issues/12 months
- Echos Du Monde - Cosmos En Braille - 10 issues/12 months
- Echos Du Monde - Etoile En Braille - 10 issues/12 months
- Voir Plus Loin - Braille Edition - 4 issues/12 months
- Liaison - Braille Edition - 6 issues/12 months
- Bulletin Pedagogique - Braille Edition - 5 issues/12 months
- Louis Braille - 11 issues/12 months
- Info-Doc - 3 issues/12 months
- Voir - Belgium - 2 issues / 12 months
Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind is a free general-interest monthly. It comes in contracted Braille, on cassette, online, as a podcast and by e-mail in text. To subscribe please write to blind@verizon.net. Subscribe to a podcast of the most current issue.