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From the bestselling author of Beautiful Oops! comes an inspiring story for every child who needs or wears glasses.
One out of four kids either wears or needs glasses, and their parents will want their child to feel that glasses are awesome because they're cool, fun, and enable us to do all the things we want to do. That's where Arlo steps in. He's a shaggy, free-spirited dog who loves to play catch, until one day he can't see the ball anymore. He needs glasses!
Created by Barney Saltzberg, the bespectacled author of the bestselling title Beautiful Oops! , Arlo Needs Glasses is an inventive and reassuring story that gets it. Readers will follow along with Arlo as he does all the big firsts involved in getting glasses--visit a doctor, get tested on an eye chart, look through the phoropter. And then the fun part--choosing frames! What should Arlo get? Movie star glasses? Superhero glasses? Classic frames that never go out of style?
Originally published as an interactive novelty book, Arlo Needs Glasses is as necessary and inspiring as ever: Arlo puts on his new glasses and look-now he can catch again. Glasses rock!
Author Notes
Barney Saltzberg was born in Los Angeles, California. He fell in love with drawing at an early age, encouraged primarily by his mother, who bought him drawing pads instead of coloring books so he could create his own art. Barney went on to study art at Sonoma State College in Northern California.
Barney moved back to Los Angeles in the late 1970's and took a class at Otis/Parsons in children's book writing and illustration. His first published children's book, It Must Have Been the Wind, came out of that class. He now has published close to thirty books.
Saltzberg carries around a sketchbook and is constantly doodling and writing things down. In addition to writing and illustrating children's books he has recorded two albums for children. Where, Oh, Where's My Underwear? and most recently The Soccer Mom From Outer Space! He has also written and produced songs for the PBS show, Arthur.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In this chunky pop-up book, Arlo, a shaggy yellow dog, requires a trip to the optometrist after he has trouble playing catch with his bespectacled owner. Saltzberg introduces the process of getting glasses in bright, funny pictures with tabs, foldouts, and other features. A tab changes an eye chart from clear letters ("This is how the chart looked to me") to blurry ones ("This is how it looked to Arlo"). Saltzberg's candid and encouraging tone should ease readers into their first pair of specs. Ages 3-up. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
What's a dog to do when he can't see as well as he used to? Arlo the dog loves playing catch. But one day, he can't catch anymore; the ball zooms right by him or bonks him on the nose. His owner is frustrated. Even after the owner shows Arlo how to catch, he still can't do it. So it's off to the eye doctor! The doctor uses a machine called a phoropter and asks Arlo to read an eye chart. His owner (who already has glasses) can read it clearly, but it's blurry for Arlo. Arlo tries on a bunch of different glasses before finding the perfect pair (sensible half-moons with dog-bone accents on the sides). Arlo can play catch again, but the thing he likes to do best is read! Light on plot, this straightforward narrative is best geared toward those young ones needing or curious about glasses--or those who just like dogs. While the story is simple, the artwork is quirky, with some intentionally offbeat moments, like a dog being asked to read an eye chart or the zany rejected frames, though others are head-scratching: Arlo's owner looks almost middle-aged on some pages, with thinning hair, but appears almost small, almost childlike, beside the eye doctor. Overall, the story's cute but may not garner too many rereads. Arlo's owner is light-skinned, while the eye doctor is tan-skinned. Kooky fare to help bolster little ones before a trip to the eye doctor. (Picture book. 3-6) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
