Arthur's Eyes (Arthur Adventures Series)

Arthur's embarrassment about wearing his new glasses leads to hilarious havocuntil he realizes that four eyes can be better than two.

Arthur's embarrassment about wearing his new glasses leads to hilarious havoc, and to the eventual realization that four eyes can be better than two. "Executed with Brown's customary brash comic energy."--Kirkus Reviews. IRA/CBC Children's Choice; Reading Rainbow Selection. Full color.

Arthur the aardvark is having trouble with his eyes—he needs glasses! When he wears glasses to school, everybody teases him. He tries to lose the glasses, but this leads to some embarrassing situations—such as when he enters the girls' bathroom. Arthur decides he's better off wearing his glasses after all. This early adventure in the popular Arthur series skillfully handles a difficult situation.

Publishers Weekly

Arthur faces two different problems in these books. In the first one, he can't see so he has to get glasses, but he gets teased. So he quits wearing the glasses, which makes his problem even worse. Finally Arthur's teacher shows him how to be proud of his glasses. In the second story, Arthur's cold makes him self-conscious about his nose. He goes to a rhinologist to get a new nose, but his own is the only nose that looks right. (4-8)

Two things suggest that Arthur, the loveable star of children s books and the PBS series, may not be so fictitious after all: 1) Kids are known to call Marc Brown s house looking for their bespectacled friend and 2) Brown s third grade class picture -- according to many, a dead-ringer for the aardvark himself.