This Is My Eye: A New York Story

It's not what you look at, it's what you see Take a journey through New York City as it might be seen by a child through a camera lens.

Shapes, colors, patterns, and people are everywhere, and things look different depending on how you look at them -- and who is doing the looking. In this playful ode to photography and point of view, a poetic story posits how one young girl might capture moments of insight, community, and art in her beloved hometown, New York City. With the popularity of camera phones, photo-journaling, and photo-posting sites, this fictional exploration of photography as one young girl's form of self-expression is guaranteed to appeal to budding photographers.

Author: Neela Vaswani
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 08/14/2018
Pages: 56
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 10.70h x 10.80w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780763676162

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 1.4
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 197873 / This Is My Eye: A New York Story


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2018
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Neela Vaswani is the co-author (with Silas House) of the middle-grade novel Same Sun Here and the author of You Have Given Me a Country and Where the Long Grass Bends. Her work has received an American Book Gold Award, an O. Henry Prize, and a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award. A teacher at Spalding University's MFA in Writing program and founder of the Storylines Project with the New York Public Library, Neela Vaswani lives in New York City.

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