Tassie Rhymes for Little Tigers goes low vision, braille editions

Tassie Rhymes for Little Tigers has launched a companion braille and low-vision version, and Toast for Kids Charity president Steve Martin believes it's an Australian first.

"It made sense to us that parents experiencing limited vision needed to be included with the effort to improve children's literacy," Mr Martin said.

The book, authored and illustrated by Narelda Joy, has been available for free to parents of newborns since August. Mr Martin said they had already received feedback from a mother of visually impaired children.

He said she had resorted to purchasing expensive books from America for her children to read.

"Her six-year-old daughter was over-the-moon with the book," he said.

"So I've gotta say, we're pretty proud the first one [companion book in Australia] is a Tasmanian initiative, with a Tasmanian author and illustrator and features Tasmanian animals."

Mr Martin expected there would be an influx of enquiries from around the country after the book is catalogued with the National Library.

He said NextSense, a non-for-profit that supports people with hearing or vision loss, saw the book's addition as an example of best practice to be aimed for nationally.

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