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Whale Eyes

James Robinson’s Whale Eyes is a superb middle grade memoir that champions empathy and understanding on every level.

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Review of ‘Whale Eyes’

Young documentary filmmaker James Robinson was born with strabismus—misaligned eyes. Although his vision is twenty-twenty, his brain doesn’t fuse the images it receives from each eye. As a result, as he writes, “Since each eye sees a slightly different view, every time my brain switches between eyes, it looks like my entire world jumps.” Robinson’s…

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