Baby Duck is unhappy about the new eyeglasses she has to wear, until Grampa helps her realize that they are not so bad after all.

Junie B. thinks first grade is a flop when her kindergarten friend Lucille prefers the company of twins Camille and Chenille and Junie B. needs glasses.

"Mr. Posey is feeling gloomy. Everything seems dull. Maybe he needs new glasses? Perhaps a trip to the Cheer Up Thrift Shop with his energetic young neighbor Andy will help. But when the duo try on the glasses in the shop's barrel, they're in for a big surprise"--Publisher marketing.

Karen has to get glasses! She doesn't want them, especially because school pictures are going to be taken soon. But she picks out some pretty pink ones and thinks she looks very grown-up. Then Yicky Ricky at school starts calling her names, like Owl Girl and Googly Eyes. If Karen wears her glasses for the school picture, Ricky will make fun of her. If she doesn't wear them, she'll feel like she's afraid to be herself. Glasses or no glasses, that Ricky...

When a reluctant Linus gets glasses, a jealous Snoopy makes an effort to become fashionably bespectacled as well.

"A nonfiction 'biography' of glasses, an everyday object that has become ubiquitous, starting with the discovery of the magnifying properties of glass through the development of the eye chart, plastic lenses, and contact lenses"--

His friends tease Arthur when he gets glasses, but he soon learns to wear them with pride.

When Nan the mermaid looks at her friend Dolphin and thinks she sees a sea monster, her friends realize that she needs glasses.

Explores sight including human and animal sight, how the eye works, and methods of correcting sight problems.