Sam doesn't like his new glasses. They make his ears hurt. His parents say he looks handsome in them. But Sam just wants to look like himself. His teacher doesn't recognize him; she says he must be a new superhero. But Sam doesn't want to be a superhero. He just wants to be himself. At least his best friend George recognizes him and thinks he looks okay. Sam does everything he can to lose his glasses but they keep being found. And then things get even worse, and Sam has to cope with googly-eyed turtles and giant penguins! Eventually, with a bit of confidence and a lot of humour, Sam finds out that wearing glasses isn't so bad - and people still like him just the way he is after all.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 3-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Exisle Publishing .

Susanne Gervay OAM is the author of best-selling I AM JACK, SUPER JACK, ALWAYS JACK and BEING JACK. She has also written YA titles, including THE CAVE, BUTTERFLIES and THAT'S WHY I WROTE THIS SONG. Susanne owns the Hughenden Hotel and lives in Woollahra, NSW. Cathy Wilcox is a children's illustrator and cartoonist at the SMH. She lives in Riverview, NSW. Marjorie Crosby-Fairall is a designer and freelance illustrator of 7 previous children's books. A dual citizen of Australia and the USA, Marjorie was raised on a farm in California with a menagerie of rescued animals. She devoured picture books as a child, examining the detail of their illustrations. Her books have appeared on the Premier's Reading Challenge lists, and she won the CBCA Eve Pownall Award for her first picture book.