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Blueberry Eyes

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I bought this book because my 1 year old son has vision issues and was about to undergo Strabismus Surgery. This Book has been a great help to our family. My daughter was able to understand more about her brothers eye issues after I read this book to her than if I was to try to explain it myself. The little girl in the story, Meaghan, touched my heart and reading her story has helped us to understand how a child feels about his/her eye condition. I have recomended this book to many others as a Must Read for the entire family, especially when faced with a vision problem!..

As a pediatric ophthalmologist, I keep this book in my waiting room for the parents and chldren to read/learn about crossed eyes (strabismus). It talks about wearing glasses and even having eye muscle surgery in a positive and supportive fashion. A "must read" for any child facing the sometimes daunting and always a little bit scary trip to the hospital (and also a supportive tool for mom and dad).

Blueberry Eyes was written to help a little girl cope with various eye problems including wearing glasses at a very young age (four months), wearing an eye patch and going through eye surgery. It is very detailed, and sometimes uses words that are more complex than they have to be (corridor for hallway). The child telling the story is a seven-year-old girl, and the illustrations are darling. She is depicted as cute and happy wearing her glasses. She is also depicted as having red, sore eyes after surgery, but the pictures are not frightening at all.

This book had more information than I needed to prepare my four-year-old for her first pair of glasses. When reading it to her I deleted most of the surgery discussion since that didn't concern us. It was helpful to see little girls wearing glasses, and my daughter was engaged by the illustrations and the story. I plan to recommend this book to my eye care professional as a reference for patients.

Our daughter needed to have eye surgery and this book was wonderful. There were some areas that did not apply but I think it really help our 3 1/2 year old.

My granddaughter had to have eye surgery and I thought this might help her deal with it (she is only three). My son and daughter-in-law read it to her the night before the surgery and it went over everything she had had to go through and would go through. The next day when they came for her with a rolling bed to go to the operating room, she insisted on walking, saying, "Bleuberry Eyes walked and so I will, too!" It was really on point for children who have an eye with muscle problems who have glasses and have to have surgery. Great!

What a lovely nickname for Meaghan! One eye didn't open till a couple of days after she was born. By the time she was four months old, her blueberry eyes had glasses because they were crossing and Meaghan was very farsighted. This delightful book presents health care issues from the child's point of view, e.g. the joy of seeing better with glasses; the frustrations of wearing an eye patch; the feelings about being the only child her age with glasses (bifocals); the nice nurses and doctors; the presents and cards from family and friends after eye muscle surgery; etc. The story is told by Meaghan when she is in second grade. It is very well written and has a glossary for technical terms.

My 3 1/2 year old daughter had to have eye surgery and I was looking for a book to read so she would feel comfortable with the whole process. I thought this would be a good one, but was I wrong! Not only does it put a very negative spin on the whole thing, but it also has the potential to put a lot of ideas into kid's heads. I ended up writing my own book.

Blueberry Eyes was written to help a little girl cope with various eye problems including wearing glasses at a very young age (four months), wearing an eye patch and going through eye surgery. It is very detailed, and sometimes uses words that are more complex than they have to be (corridor for hallway). The child telling the story is a seven-year-old girl, and the illustrations are darling. She is depicted as cute and happy wearing her glasses. She is also depicted as having red, sore eyes after surgery, but the pictures are not frightening at all.

This book had more information than I needed to prepare my four-year-old for her first pair of glasses. When reading it to her I deleted most of the surgery discussion since that didn't concern us. It was helpful to see little girls wearing glasses, and my daughter was engaged by the illustrations and the story. I plan to recommend this book to my eye care professional as a reference for patients.

Our daughter is having eye muscle surgery in two days. We bought this book a couple weeks ago after her surgeon suggested reading a book to calm her fears and help answer her questions. I could not have written a more perfect, clear, reassuring book myself. You described her experiences exactly - the glasses, patching, and now surgical procedure. My daughter and I have read it each day and, between the book and the hospital tour, she is actually excited to get her eyes "fixed". Thank you from one mother to another!

I think the book is cute, I just wished it could have been geared to a younger audience. There were parts that I had to edit out when reading to my 3 year old daughter, who was about to go in for eye muscle surgery. I didn't want to scare her too much. The part about waking up from surgery was very honest, but very scarey for a child to hear.