HER SPECIAL VISION: A BIOGRAPHY OF JEAN LITTLE. Greenwood, Barbara and Audrey McKim. Toronto, Irwin Publishing, 1987. 90pp. paper. $4.95, ISBN 0-7725-1564-2. (Contemporary Canadian Biographies series). CIP Grades 6 to 12 Reviewed by Leslie McGrath Volume 16 Number 4 1988 July Her Special Vision is a short biography of Jean Little, the award-winning Canadian author. One of the "Contemporary Canadian Biographies" series, this is a brisk-paced but sensitive portrait highlighted by plentiful quotes and photographs. Little's life story is told in detail in her autobiography, Little by Little.* Born blind, Little was encouraged to be independent by her parents and by her own self-reliant nature. Her Special Vision presents a brief but penetrating account of a life shadowed by a prolonged struggle against total blindness and lightened by a caring family, warm friendships and brilliant achievements. Modest and unassuming, Little denies that becoming a writer took courage but readily admits her fears of looking foolish, of loneliness, of death. Yet she perseveres in her chosen career, using her books to tell children, "you are not the only one, after all. Here is someone just as small and scared and mixed-up as you are, and yet he or she is loved as you are, and loving as you are." Little's own words, written in memory of her late father, capture the essence of the remarkable person this book describes so clearly: A dreamer who went on and dared to do . . . who fit no pattern ever made, A clown, a seer, a fighter undismayed. Leslie McGrath, Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Ont. *Reviewed vol. XVI/4 July 1988 p.121.