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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.

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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.

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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.
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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)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316110693
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Publication date: 5/28/1986
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 32
  • Sales rank: 136,511
  • Age range: 4 - 7 Years
  • Lexile: 260L (what's this?)
  • Series: Arthur Adventures Series
  • Product dimensions: 7.00 (w) x 9.90 (h) x 0.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Marc Brown
Marc Brown

Marc Brown is the creator of the bestselling Arthur Adventure book series and creative producer of the number-one children's PBS television series, Arthur. He has also created a second book series featuring D.W., Arthur's little sister, as well as numerous other books for children. Marc Brown lives with his family in Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard.

Biography

Marc Brown recalls a phone call he received late one night at his home in Hingham, Massachustts, just outside of Boston. On the other end of the line, a small, obviously young voice asked, "Is Arthur there?"

"I told him that Arthur had already gone to bed," Brown recalled for the Los Angeles Times in 1996. "And so should he."

That such phone call is not an isolated occurrence at the Brown household is testament to the popularity -- and approachability -- of Brown's creation. Arthur is not simply the world's most famous bespectacled aardvark, he is also a kid just like any other, grappling with same issues his readers are: annoying sisters, terrifying teachers, and babysitting nightmares. Arthur may be a drawing, but to his fans, he seems quite real.

"I feel like I'm listening to my own kids," Carol Greenwald, who produces the companion television program for PBS, told People in 1997. "I have to bite back the urge to say, 'Stop bickering.'"

By now, the Arthur series has produced more than 10 million books as well as a hit television show for PBS and made his creator a wealthy man. But the early days were a different story. Separated from his wife, living with his mother-in-law and recently released from his job as a college professor, Brown came home in the mid-1970s to a request from his 4-year-old son, Tolon:

Tell me a story.

And make it about a weird animal.

So, as Brown reached into the possibilities of uncommon zoology for his son's nocturnal enjoyment, he also concocted the beginnings of a career. He took his new creation to a friend at Atlantic Monthly Press who gave him guidance, and he landed a publishing deal for the first book in what would become a series: Arthur's Nose. And the big money started rolling in. His first check was somewhere around $70 to $80. (The number seems to vary with the telling.)

"I was imagining buying a new car, and instead I got groceries," he told the Sun-Sentinel in South Florida. "It was about five years before I felt like I could make a living doing this."

Brown had long dreamed of illustrating children's books, inspired in high school by Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are. As a student at the Cleveland Institute of Art, he says he found that such pursuits were considered too pedestrian for the serious artistic mind: He has said his decision to include his illustrations in his submission for the institute's drawing award cost him the prize.

After Cleveland, he worked as a cook and a delivery truck driver who kept getting lost. He also farmed chickens. He found freelance work as a professional illustrator in the textbook field and even worked on an Isaac Asimov book for his first non-textbook assignment.

Arthur, though, eventually opened all the right doors. And, aside from that series, Brown has also illustrated books for other children's authors and drawn on his own life for books outside the Arthur titles. The end of his first marriage eventually yielded a children's book, Dinosaur's Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families.

"When I went through a divorce..., I went to the library hoping to find books to help my two young sons through the experience," he is quoted in Contemporary Authors as saying. "I found little information, and what there was very sexist, depicting children living with the mother and the father living in a depressing residential hotel. Our experience was different: my sons lived with me. I started keeping a file for a book I had in mind to write one day."

Brown makes no secret of his habit of mining his own life for his children's fiction. The Arthur books, in fact, are something of a family album: Arthur's sister D. W. is a composite of his own sisters, Arthur's adventures in babysitting were inspired by his own experience watching over two children who tied him to a chair and scampered off to find hiding places in their enormous house. Grandma Thora doesn't even have a different name from his own grandmother, who used to save all of his childhood drawings and later encouraged him to go to art school.

And when Brown and his second wife had another child, Eliza, he decided he shouldn't be the only one saddled with the less enjoyable aspects of child care. He gave Arthur a baby sister, Kate.

"I though if I had to change diapers," he told the Christian Science Monitor in 1997, "so should Arthur."

Good To Know

Brown changed his first name from Mark to Marc because he was so enthralled with the work of painter Marc Chagall.

He told People magazine in 1997 that Arthur is the spitting image of his third-grade class picture.

Brown dresses up as Arthur on Halloween, which makes his house a must-stop for the children of Hingham, Massachusetts.

    1. Also Known As:
      Marc Tolan Brown
    2. Hometown:
      Hingham, Massachusetts and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
    1. Date of Birth:
      November 25, 1946
    2. Place of Birth:
      Erie, Pennsylvania
    1. Education:
      M.F.A., Cleveland Institute of Art, 1969

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 25, 2009

    Cool Arthur Book (by Neti)

    This book is about Arthur before he got his glasses. Arthur couldn't see well and sometimes he got headaches. My favorite part is when went in the girls room and Francine was in the girls room. When she saw him she started to scream.

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  • Posted March 9, 2009

    Serves a purpose of teaching

    It helped my granddaughter adjust to her new glasses at age two. Her preschool teacher shared it with the class to make her feel special and to get excited about wearing the glasses. I would recommend it to any parent of a young child going thru the adjustment.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 18, 2008

    Arthur's Eyes (Arthur Adventures Series)

    Arthur's eyes was about him getting glasses because he could barely see. I thought it was good because it was funny and I was happy because now that Arthur can see he wouldn't go into the girls' restroom. I would give it to a friend because it is good. My favorite part was when Francine wore big, big glasses.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 18, 2008

    Arthur's Eyes (Arthur Adventures Series)

    Arthur's eyes was about how Arthur did not like his glasses. It was as weird as swimming in shark infested water. You would like this book because Arthur went into the girls' bathroom. That was my favorite part.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 4, 2007

    Arthur's Eyes A Good Book!!

    If you have eye trouble you should read this book. I recommend this book. You should read this book because Arthur had the same problem as you. Arthur walks in to the girl's bathroom. Francine screamed a little girl! He gets glasses.

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