Cromwell's Glasses

I have never come across the sort of situation that this book describes. I know several children who have to wear glasses but none of them has ever been made miserable by teasing from other children. In case I had been being smugly unseeing ('We have no racial tension in our playground'), I asked my daughter, who had to wear glasses at the age of nine, if she had come across such as thing and she assured me that glasses were so common in schools now that no one bothered about it.

Certainly the four children in my current class who wear glasses and their friends were puzzled by Holly Keller's latest social problem offering and found it difficult to believe in the situation. That said, however, Holly Keller's characters always have charm and Cromwell is no exception; children enjoyed the story. It has not been borrowed a great deal though; I think simply because it didn't really strike home with anyone. If you have this problem in your class or with your own child, however, Cromwell may well help you to deal with it.