Taline Dorna

The Extraordinary Eye Taline Dorna

A family's journey of how an incredible young boy's cancer diagnosis leads to bravery, self discovery, and a new extraordinary eye!


An illustrated children's story written to aid patients, and help their siblings understand retinoblastoma from diagnosis, to enucleation, to living with an ocular prosthesis.


Join this family as they learn of a child's cancer diagnosis at the doctors office, treatment at the hospital, and acceptance of a new prosthesis at home.


Meet all the wonderful doctors, ophthalmologists, nurses and ocularists that help out along the way.





About the author


Taline Dorna is an elementary teacher (grade one), by profession; and a mother to 3 children under the age of 6. When her youngest was 5 months old, he was diagnosed with retinoblastoma (a very rare eye cancer).


She searched high and low for story books that feature a child with a prosthetic eye and they were few and far between. As a result, she decided to write a children's story book that could be used in a classroom setting as a social story; or for newly diagnosed patients, as well as a way to spread general awareness about retinoblastoma.