Title: Arlo Needs Glasses
Author: Barney Saltzberg
ISBN: 9780761168799
Hard Workman Publishing
Suggested Retail: $15.95 US
About Arlo Needs Glasses:
Every child who wears glasses will know just how Arlo feels, and will feel better because of it. And every parent will want that child to know that glasses are cool and fun and enable us to do the things we want to do. Take Arlo: He’s a shaggy, free-spirited dog who loves to play catch, until one day he can’t. He can’t see the ball anymore. He needs glasses!
In this inventive, interactive picture book created by Barney Saltzberg, the bespectacled author of Beautiful Oops!, who charms young readers and their parents with a perfect light touch and joyful spirit, kids get to do just what Arlo does to solve his problem. They read an eye chart, look through a fold-out phoropter (that big machine optometrists use), and try on different pairs of glasses—movie star glasses! superhero glasses! mad scientist glasses! And they interact with Arlo as he rediscovers how to be the best ball-catcher in the neighborhood and picks up a new favorite pastime along the way—reading! One out of five school-age children needs glasses. Arlo will show them just how lucky they are.
Review:
In a previous post, I had mentioned my second daughter having some vision problems. She was diagnosed last winter with being cross eyed and far sighted. We are doing exercises with her and she is also wearing glasses to help her vision. She may need surgery yet down the road, but we are taking it one day at a time. She loves Arlo Needs Glasses!
This book is cute, interactive, and I feel it can give a child a bit of insight to what it is like when correction is needed for their vision.
Arlo Needs Glasses is a wonderful book to share with children. This colorful and upbeat hardcover shows how wearing glasses can be both hip and cool, yet aid us in doing many great activities, like reading.
