Publisher's Synopsis
There are many things that make Bruno special. He loves riding his bike and playing soccer, he is a great brother and is passionate about animals. He also has a prosthetic eye and in this book he tells you all about it. You will discover why Bruno got his special eye, how does he take care of it, how to protect eyes from accidents and what is a visit to the ocularist like.
Having such a special eye is just one of the many things that make Bruno unique. This positive book will be a great resource for any child with vision in one eye, with or without a prosthetic eye, scleral shell or cosmetic lens.
My Special Eye has been honoured with the prestigious ★Little Parachutes Gold Star Award★ and is also available in Spanish (Mi ojo especial), Italian (Il mio occhio speciale) and Dutch (Mijn Speciale Oog). Recommended price (excluding delivery costs): 15 EUR / 17 USD / 13 GBP. For more information, visit littleparachutes.com/books/my-special-eye/
"My Special Eye is both sensitively and thoughtfully written and visually engaging. This appealing picture book would be helpful and reassuring for a child who is faced with the prospect of having a prosthesis fitted, and is a useful source of information for anyone curious to know more about what it's like to live with an artificial eye." - LittleParachutes.com
From the Author: The story behind My Special Eye book
My Special Eye was created a few years after my son lost vision in his left eye when he was 2 years old. One year later he had surgery to replace his eye with a prosthetic eye. It is an understatement to say that this affected our family deeply. Apart from the shock and pain for the suffering of our child and the anxiety for his future, we found ourselves dealing with something completely unexpected that we knew nothing about. Ocular prosthesis, scleral shell, hydroxyapatite implant, uveitis, phthisis bulbi, band keratopathy, evisceration, enucleation... suddenly all these terms became part of our day-to-day vocabulary.
My Special Eye is the children's book we would have liked to have at that time. It will be a useful resource for any child with vision in one eye, a prosthetic eye or a scleral shell.
Explaining a child that he or she needs an ocular prosthesis is not easy. However when the time came we found that our son and his sibling were way ahead of us in terms of acceptance, resilience and positivity. Also we soon realised that losing vision in one eye didn't limit our child in any way. For him his prosthesis meant that now he had a special eye that could be taken in and out. Nothing more and nothing less.
I hope My Special Eye book will help monocular children and their families to realise that having a prosthetic eye is just one of the many things that make them so special and unique.
