This Is My Eye

Written and illustrated by Neela Vaswani

Discover New York City through a child's camera lens, where perspective transforms the ordinary into art.

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56 pages· 188 words· Est. 2 min read-aloud· ~140L

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Bookroo's summary

In bustling New York City, a young girl explores her world through a camera lens, capturing the vibrant shapes, colors, and patterns around her. As she photographs her beloved city, she discovers that perspective changes everything. This poetic journey invites readers to see the familiar in new ways, celebrating photography as a powerful form of self-expression. What insights will she uncover in her quest to document her community and its art? Perfect for budding photographers, this story encourages seeing beyond the surface to find beauty in unexpected places.

From the publisher

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.

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