Dutch Donald Duck weekly now available in Braille
The Dutch often say that everybody in the country grew up reading the Donald Duck weekly magazine, but then that didn’t include the visually impaired.
Yesterday, Dedicon from Grave, Gelderland, a company that has been specialising in books for the visually impaired for 60 years, published a Braille edition of the classic, with accompanying audio. The Braille weekly is 10 cm thick.
Dedicon does not know yet if it can produce more versions, as it first needs to see if the target group likes the product.
Fun fact: In Dutch, Daisy Duck is called Katrien and the nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie and Kwik, Kwek and Kwak, the latter being the sound a duck makes in Dutch.
Read more about Donald Duck in the Netherlands:
Donald Duck Junior mag for children that don’t read
Donald Duck a big hit in the Frisian language
Donald Duck magazine takes kids’ money for copyright lesson
(Link and photo: omroepbrabant.nl)
I once lived in the Netherlands for 2 years without knowing this magazine. I asked a friend still living there to get one for me after reading this. To my pleasant surprise I can understand it with only occassional help from a dictionary and it is actually quite funny!