Author Jenny Sue Kostecki Shaw on KMOX Thursday, April 3, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Videoconferencing.Tags: author visit, book, Charles Brennan, Cooperating School Districts, Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw, KMOX, New Links to New Learning, radio, schools, St. Louis, videoconference
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Jenny Sue Kostecki Shaw is scheduled to be on KMOX Thursday, May 8 at 10:10 a.m. CDT. Charles Brennan will interview her the day before she participates in our videoconference, so parents, teachers, students, try to tune in!
MAY 9 NOTE: Missed the interview? Click here to listen to a podcast of the interview: feed://www.kmox.com/pages/podcast/222.rss
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Vol. 104 No. 15, 4/1/08
The comforting idea that there’s something to gain from every experience gets a fresh interpretation in this sensitive debut picture book. Jenny Sue has a “lazy eye” that looks where it wants, no matter where Jenny Sue is really looking. She calls it her “travelin’ eye,” and though she is sometimes teased, she is mostly happy with how she sees the world: here right eye is “the navigator…my guide”; her left takes in the bigger picture. Ophthalmologist Dave is not quite as laissez-faire; he prescribes a patch. His treatment works, but it’s no fun, and the author, who had amplyopia, tells it like it is…tears included. Bright colors and patterns warm the realistic story, while graphics-style artwork gives a sense of Jenny Sue’s vision–sometimes blurry and dark, sometimes filled with light and beautiful, swirling images. The double-spread of Jenny Sue’s wildly decorated eye patches and the cover image of her staring out behind big, round, brightly patterned glasses are especially winning. –Stephanie Zvirin
Scholastic Instructor, April 2008
This sweet picture book about a girl with a roaming eye will serve as a springboard for talking about all kinds of physical differences–how they make us unique but also how much we are all alike.
Kirkus Reviews
An upbeat look at how a creative little girl copes with vision problems and the challenge of being different. Jenny Sue was born with a “wandering eye.” Instead of looking in the same direction at the same time, her eyes look in different directions. One eye sees numbers and acts as her navigator; her other, travelin’ eye sees colors and is an “adventurer” reminding her to look around-sometimes a little too much. Her teacher suggests she should see an ophthalmologist to “fix” her eye so “it wouldn’t stare out the window.” Dr. Dave confirms that Jenny Sue has a lazy eye that needs to wake up, so he puts a plain patch over her good eye and gives her enormous thick red glasses. Overwhelmed by her patch and glasses, Jenny Sue can’t seem to do anything right at school until her mother shows her how to design unique “fashion patches.” Original multimedia illustrations provide a humorous look at the amazing world of irrepressible Jenny Sue, where the eyes definitely have it. (Picture book. 4-7)