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The Boy in the Big Blue Glasses

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When Sam gets his first pair of glasses, he feels like no one knows who he is anymore. His parents say he looks handsome in them and his grandpa thinks he must be a superhero, but Sam just wants to be himself. Even at school, everyone... Read More
Format: Hardback
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The Boy in the Big Blue Glasses

When Sam gets new glasses, everyone says he looks like a handsome superhero, but Sam just wants to be himself. Follow his antics as he faces monsters, sails the high seas, and rediscovers his sense of humour and adventure in this inspirational tale about overcoming your fears of other people’s perceptions and never shying away from being yourself.

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When Sam gets his first pair of glasses, he feels like no one knows who he is anymore. His parents say he looks handsome in them and his grandpa thinks he must be a superhero, but Sam just wants to be himself. Even at school, everyone except his best friend George seems to have forgotten who he is. How will Sam make the world see him again?

Follow Sam as he tries to remind people who he is, abandons his glasses at every chance he gets, and even faces giant penguins and googly-eyed turtles in his journey back to his old self. Young readers will delight in the vibrant illustrations and Sam’s imaginative antics, from building pirate ships with George to fending off sharks as captain on the high seas. And the more he returns to his adventurous ways, and rediscovers his confidence and sense of humour, the more people see him not as some anonymous handsome superhero, but as Sam.

The Boy in the Big Blue Glasses is an action-packed story about overcoming your fears of other people’s perceptions and not shying away from being yourself. Any children dealing with new glasses or other changes in their appearance will find inspiration in Sam’s bravery. After all, how big or blue your glasses are doesn’t make any difference when you’re captain of a pirate ship!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925335996

Publisher: Exisle Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 July 2019

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: EK Books

Illustration: 35 color illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Marjorie Crosby-Fairall

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 288.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 32

About the Author

Susanne Gervay is an award-winning Australian author, educational consultant and children’s book advisor who has published 15 previous children’s books. She is recognized for her youth literature on social justice, having received the Lifetime Social Justice Literature Award for Children’s Literature. Marjorie Crosby-Fairall is a designer and freelance illustrator. Her books have appeared on the Premier’s Reading Challenge lists, and she won the CBCA Eve Pownall Award for her first picture book.

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