Eye of the Narwhal

About the Book

“Eye of the Narwhal” is a children’s light fiction about a whale that witnessed a crime and the boy who is learning to communicate with the whale. Will the whale be able to communicate the identity of the criminal? Will boy learn the reason why the crime was committed? And can he accomplish all of this before the culprit kills either him or the whale?

About the Author

Ira Cochin worked as an engineer for 15 years in industry for such companies as Kearfott, and Bendix. Then he was a professor for 36 years at New Jersey Institute of Technology. During his professorship, Ira became blind and then deaf. He went for training at the Helen Keller Center for the Deaf-Blind. He returned to NJIT and became the world’s first deaf-blind professor to teach engineering. His accomplishments appeared in the New Jersey Supplement of the Sunday New York Times in December 18, 1977. Ira Cochin has written two technical books, six novels, dozens of articles in various magazines and trade journals, and four articles concerning the handicapped.