My
New Glasses

Unless otherwise noted, all books
may be found in the juvenile picture book section,
arranged by the author’s
last name.
Seeing Sugar / Cynthia L.
Brinson
When she loses her front row seat in class, Kate discovers that she
needs glasses.
j BRINSON (fiction, grades 2-4)
Arthur's eyes / Marc Brown.
Arthur learns to love his new glasses.
Glasses for D.W. / Marc
Brown.
Arthur's little sister wants to wear glasses like her brother and
tries to prove she needs them.
Agapanthus Hum and the
eyeglasses / Joy Cowley
Agapanthus wants to wear her glasses while she does her fabulous
acrobatic tricks.
j Er COWLEY (beginning reader)
Jenny gets glasses / Roni
Denholtz
Jenny figures out a unique way to remember to wear her glasses every
day.
j Er DENHOLTZ (beginning reader)
Farmer McPeepers and his missing
milk cows / Katy Duffiled
A crafty herd of cows borrows Farmer McPeepers' eyeglasses so that
they can have a day on the town.
Dogs don't wear glasses /
Adrienne Geoghegan
Nanny Needles takes her dog Seymour to the eye doctor.
Watch out, Ronald Morgan! /
Patricia Reilly Giff
Ronald has several funny experiences until he gets a pair of
eyeglasses.
j Er GIFF (beginning reader)
The patch / Justina Chen
Headley
Five-year-old Becca discovers that her new eyeglasses and eye patch–
which she needs to correct her lazy eye - allow her to become people
as different as a ballerina-pirate and a private eye.
Baby Duck and the bad eyeglasses / Amy Hest
Grandpa helps Baby realize that her new glasses are not so bad after
all.
Make room for Elisa /
Johanna Hurwitz
Five year old Elisa gets new eyeglasses.
j HURWITZ (fiction, grades 1-3)
Cromwell's glasses / Holly
Keller
Lydia aids her brother when he is teased about his new glasses.
Junie B., first grader (at
last!) / Barbara Park
Junie B. needs glasses.
j PARKS / j pb P ( fiction, gr. 1-3 & paperback)
Winnie flies again / Korky
Paul
Winnie the witch has trouble navigating crowded skies, but the
problems is not with her broomstick.
j E-pb P (picture book paperback)
Spectacles / Ellen Raskin
A little girl talks about some of the odd things she saw before
being fitted with glasses.
j E-pb R (picture book paperback)
Honey Bunny's honey bear /
Marilyn Sadler
Honey Bunny wants to be friends with the bear who sits next to her
in school,
but he never seems to notice her.
j Er PRIMER SADLER
Glasses : who needs 'em? /
Lane Smith
A boy is unhappy about having to wear glasses, until his doctor
provides
an unusual list of other eyeglass wearers.
Just call me J.P. /
Jacqueline Sweeney
James Philip Bunny is unhappy about being mistaken for his twin
brother, but eyeglasses solve that problem.
j Er SWEENEY (beginning reader)
Hocus focus / Sarah Willson
Jack and Gina let the teasing of a classmate stop them from wearing
their glasses until a class field trip makes them change their
minds.
j WILLSON (fiction, grades 1-3)
Non-Fiction:
How do our eyes see? / Carol Ballard / j 612.84 BAL
Can you see the chalkboard?
/ Alvin Silverstein / j 617.7 Sil