"Glasses" features vibrant photographs of young toddlers and babies wearing real glasses and simply doing things that young kids like to do. The pictures are accompanied by a simple rhyming text that celebrates the role that glasses play in a young child's life.
Suitable for Ages: 0-4
Themes: Glasses, Children, Diversity, Differences, Rhyming
Opening: “Some glasses are red. Some glasses are blue. I think your glasses look great on you!”
Synopsis: A positive board book for babies and toddlers who wear glasses. Colorful glasses, round or square, grace the chubby and happy faces of youngsters to help them see.
Why I like this book:
Ann Gwinn Zawistoski has written a delightful board book with rhyming text that celebrates the important role glasses can play in a child’s life. The book is short, playful and filled with the right amount of information to hold a young child’s attention. It will be a book a child will beg to read again and again. The book also features a diverse group of children. Heide Woodworth’s beautiful photographs are adorable, lively and capture the joy of “seeing” on each child’s face. I welcome high quality books portraying children with different needs and challenges.
Zawistoski’s daughter started wearing glasses when she was a year old. Her daughter loved looking at books with babies and toddlers’ faces. The author kept hoping someone would write a book that featured young kids in glasses. Eventually she accepted the fact that no one was going to write a book, so she did. Glasses is the perfect book just right for small hands.