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    My Travelin' Eye

    By Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

    4.5/5

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    About this ebook

    Jenny Sue's eyes are not the same as other people's eyes. Her right eye looks in one direction, while her left eye sometimes wanders. Jenny Sue has a travelin', lazy eye. Although it makes her different, it also helps her see the world in a special way.

    Here is a charming story about one very inspiring little girl who overcomes her disability and offers inspiration to others.

    My Travelin' Eye is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2008
    ISBN9781429959827
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    My Travelin' Eye
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    Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

    Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw is the author and illustrator of Luna & Me: The True Story of a Girl Who Lived in a Tree to Save a Forest; My Travelin’ Eye; and Same, Same but Different, for which she won the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award and the South Asia Book Award. A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute and The Illustration Academy, Jenny lives with her family in their homestead in the mountains of Northern New Mexico.

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    • 4/5
      This in an incredible story about a young girl who was born with a lazy eye. This story can show students that some children are born slightly different from others and it is ok. The young girl in his story was able to over come the bullying and made it into something positive. This story is shown through the young girl's perspective through the illustrations and words. I enjoyed how all the art work in this short story was shown as the little young would have seen things through her lazy eye.
    • 5/5
      In my opinion this is a great book that deals with the topic of strabismus, also know as a "lazy eye". The language of the book was very clear and concise and the author played around with many different fonts or positioning of the text throughout the story. The writing was engaging and well written and the illustrations enhanced the text with fun colors and creative materials to put pictures together. The main character Jenny Sue is very relatable to any child who has had this disability. The insecurity that comes with wearing an eye-patch and the teasing that comes from your peers is evident in the beginning of the story. However, Jenny Sue then turns her eye-patch into a fashion statement and soon all the kids are wanting an eye-patch just like hers. Once her patch is removed, she carries on her fashion statement by decorating her eyeglasses as well and soon all the kids are wanting to have them too. The book pushes readers to overcome obstacles and inspire others just like Jenny Sue does in this story with her disability.
    • 5/5
      I thought that this was an absolutely amazing book about a child who uses her creativity to overcome an obstacle in her life. It was really wonderful seeing how Jenny Sue was able to overcome something that made her different and turn it in to something that she could use to her advantage. Instead of thinking of her lazy eye as a negative thing she soon turned it around and then all of her peers wanted what she had created because of her lazy eye. This book had a great message of using creativity to overcome something that may be seen as a negative and turn it into a positive. The illustrations in this book were also absolutely wonderful. The pictures were colorful and creative and each page told a different story about Jenny Sue. The pictures match the text perfectly and the improve the book. I think that if the book did not have these great pictures, it would not be the same at all. Overall, this is a wonderful book and I think that everyone should read it.
    • 5/5
      Out of all the books on disability I have read, this one has by far been my favorite. Most of the disability related books I’ve read have had little to no plot and have put disability on display as opposed to integrating it into the story. The thing I like best about this book is that although it is primarily about disability, it portrays it in an extraordinarily positive manner. The book is about a girl with a lazy eye who needs to wear an eye patch to help correct it. Although she’s embarrassed about the eye patch at first, she soon learns that she can make it look cool by adorning it with different designs. All the kids love her eye patch at the end the story. Besides the fact that the main message in this book is great (how to make the best out of a seemingly negative situation,) the illustrations are also stellar. Their whimsical style matches the little girl’s personality perfectly and make the story colorful and enjoyable to read. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book for someone else to read.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. I thought the pictures were extraordinary, and really added so much to the story. I liked that they reflected how the boy saw his story, instead of an outsider’s point of view. The language was descriptive, and very engaging and interesting. It is from a first person’s perspective, and really gets readers to think about their reactions to people’s differences. The plot’s conflict was the best part of the book because it really encompassed the conflict and resolution in a way that brought the message home. This book shows that it is all about perspective and attitude. He thought his eye patch was cool, so everyone else did as well.
    • 5/5
      Such a fun book! I love the creativity with the text in connection to the story line and illustrations. When Jenny Sue sees the ophthalmologist she's worried about her traveling eye following his finger. The text that's used to describe what the doctor is doing flows up and over and back down, just like his finger does. I also like how the author shows the meaning of words using size, thickness, and color. On the page where Jenny Sue gets her new glasses the adjectives used to describe them are; big, thick, and red. The word "big" is put in very large text, the word "thick" has a thicker weight to it, and the word "red" is literally red. The text and story is very interactive with the book.
    • 5/5
      This is a picture book which is best for students in 1st grade. This was a book about a little girl with a lazy eye, as the doctor diagnosed it. She considered it a traveling eye and she loved it! She knew it would get her into trouble in school settings, but it made her unique and creative. However, she dealt with the new glasses and eye patch she needed to fix her lazy eye and overcame it all. It was a very cute and fun way to show that children with a lazy eye aren't any different from the other children. It explains the diagnoses and the eye patch to students with it or to students with a similar peer. I gave it 5 star rating because I enjoyed seeing this topic in books, as well as, seeing such a happy girl make the best out of a situation she wasn't happy with in the beginning.
    • 5/5
      This is a story about a little girl who was born with a lazy eye. SHe goes to the doctor and is prescribed glasses and also an eye patch in order to strengthen her eye. When she goes to school, kids tease her. Her mother ends up finding a way to make her eye patch more exciting and turns it into an art project! All the kids at school realize how cool her eye patch is and also want one!
    • 4/5
      This is the story of a girl that was born with a lazy eye. When she was school aged she visited an ophthalmologist to help strengthen and correct her eye. Although there was a vast improvement, it wasn't completely corrected, but it was certainly better.
    • 4/5
      "When I was born, I came out looking both ways," begins this autobiographical picture-book from author/artist Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw, which explores the experience of living with strabismic amblyopia, or a "lazy eye," a condition in which the eyes are misaligned. Describing her right eye as the navigator and counter, and her left eye as the artist and color appreciator, young Jenny Sue is at first reluctant to see the ophthalmologist. When he prescribes glasses and an eye patch, in order to strengthen her weak right eye, she is even more resistant, especially when her unusual appearance leads to teasing at school. Then her mother, who always seems to know what to do, steps in, and the eye patch becomes a cool (and ever-changing) art project.My Travelin' Eye is a book I might not have picked up, had it not been recommended by a friend who is acquainted with its creator. I'm so glad that it was - thanks, Jude! - as I enjoyed both story and artwork a great deal. The author clearly understands the experience of living with this condition, and she communicates the realities of that experience to her young readers in a story that is both entertaining and emotionally engaging. Her mixed-media artwork, created with acrylics, crayon, pencil, collage and tissue paper, is lots of fun, with plenty of little details that add to the story. Recommended to young children who have amblyopia, to children who know someone with visions problems, and more generally, to anyone who appreciates beautiful and creative picture-book art.
    • 5/5
      Great book about a girl born with a wondering eye. A teacher recommends she see an opthamologist; which she is against. The opthamologist puts a patch on her good eye to make the weak eye stronger. The opthamologist also recommends wearing glasses. The children tease her and this makes the character sad and not want to attend school. The mother suggest using crafts to make her glasses and patch unique and colorful. Everyone at school want to wear a patch but they need an opthamologist authorization.
    • 4/5
      Jenny Sue was born with one eye looking in a different direction. Although she experienced some teasing from peers, she has positive feelings about her special "travelin' eye." Jenny goes to the ophthalmologist who prescribes her a pair of glasses and an eye patch. Kids at school gave her a hard time, until she started making "fashion patches!" The illustrations are colorful and fun and contain collage elements. This book is based on the author's experience as a child. This is a great book to foster conversation and comprehension about disabilities and differences.
    • 2/5
      A great picturebook about a child with a vision impairment. She has a patch over her eye, that she turns into a fashion statement.
    • 4/5
      This book gives children confidence who have disabilities that they are special and how to make the most of their 'different' situation. It offers children inspiration and hope from one who has overcome his disability.