This is a sweet book and would be great to have in a classroom. Children should always see other children that they can relate to in books.

This wonderfully illustrated picture book proves that the saying; "A picture is worth a thousand words" is true.

Dave Whamond starts out using black and white drawings to depict how sad Rosie is and to show that she sees the world through a veil of that sadness. Once Rosie finds a pair of seemingly magical glasses, colors start to show up in her world and her sadness lifts.

I do not want to spoil the twist or the ending, so I will not mention anymore of the storyline. Remember,all this is being depicted through pictures alone, there is not a single word of storyline in this entire book.

While this is a children's book, I believe it would also be a beneficial gift to anyone suffering from depression and/or any other mental illness. In fact, it would be beneficial to just about 100% of the population to read.

Rosie's Glasses was a beautiful story of seeing the world differently. Rosie saw things through a different lens that allowed her to find joy. It was a wonderful story with exceptional illustrations.

*I received an e copy of this book from NetGalley in return for an honest review.*
This book is a wordless picture book about Rosie. Rosie lives in a black and white world. She seems sad and just goes about her days. She finds a pair of glasses and when she looks through them she sees the world in color, which completely changes her mood, and changes her view of the world around her. This is a very clever book and should open up lots of discussion with children regarding their perceptions in life and trying to view things a little differently. Hopefully students will be able to see things a little differently after reading and discussing the book. This is a great book and worth reading with children. I teach 4th grade and I look forward to sharing this book with my students.

This was a really interesting book. This would be better for one on one reading because there are no words, but the concept was great. Rosie wakes up to a bad day but she borrows glasses that let her see the world in color and the beauty of everyday things. It's a story about the way we see the world, both in a positive and negative light and how when have the ability to control that.

I received an ARC of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

As the mother of a mini-pessimist preschooler, I could feel Rosie's gloom as she notices the daily instances of half-empty glasses (no pun intended). Her life is grey and she moves through her day until she notices glasses in her path. A fun play on the "Rose-Colored Glasses" theme, her little life is changed as she sees things in a much more colorific light. This wordless book means it is accessible to kids of all ages. It would be perfect for a preschool classroom, as well as a discussion with middle schoolers. I will be sharing with my little one at home to show him the power of a good pair of glasses.

Ha! This was wonderful! I love that the red glasses Rosie finds make her so happy, the world turns to color! This is a wordless picture book that anyone can easily "read". The illustrations are are wonderful, bright and detailed. Kids are going to love this story. Magic.pure magic!

Rosie’s Glasses by Dave Whamond
Publisher: Kids Can Press
ISBN: 9781771389914

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher Kids Can Press for the ebook ARC of Rosie’s Glasses by Dave Whamond in exchange for an honest review.

In this wordless picture book, Rosie wakes up in a monochrome world, with a dark cloud over her head. As she goes through her miserable, grey day, the cloud follows. Her bad day continues with chaos and pouring rain seems to just make it worse. But then on her way home from school, Rosie finds a pair of strange glasses. When she puts them on, her world is transformed into vivid, joyful colour. And she can now hear the beauty and fun in everything around her — and her dark cloud has disappeared. Are the glasses magic? Or could it be that changing how we look at the world can change the way we experience it?

I give this book a rating of 4 stars. I am not very fond of wordless books but the pictures were amazing and very detailed. My 4 year old daughter really enjoyed looking at the book.

Rosie wakes up to Eeyore’s reality

Rosie wakes up to a dark little cloud over her head. In a colorless room filled with an alarm blaring the words ‘late,’ Rosie is clearly in for a bad day. Even her goldfish looks a little anxious. Pulling all of her clothes out of the drawers and eating a tasteless breakfast are just a few ominous signs that Rosie is feeling a bit down and depressed. Nothing is going right, and like Eeyore, she cannot kick the cloud. With hungry birds chirping, the world is closing in on our little protagonist—even the buildings tower over her. Babies cry, keys are lost, and a biker is about to take a nasty spill. In a world of no music and scowling adults, life just blows.

Rosie’s doom and gloom is fast spreading, and of course, it has to rain. Bored at school, Rosie’s day finally comes to a halt on her walk home where she spots a pair of rosy red glasses. And guess what?! Suddenly, the world bursts into vibrant colors but only through the glasses’ lenses. Rosie’s world twirls and swirls alive, and everything that was once gray is happy and lighthearted. Momma bird has returned with food, our baby is pacified, and the biker is grabbing ice cream. Friends play with Rosie at school, and classmates watch a puppet show instead of performing rote addition.

Finding the happiness within

Like the cliché, all good things must come to an end (or do they?) as Rosie’s glasses flop over a bridge into the water. The world goes gray. With the bark of a dog, suddenly Rosie realizes that she can see color and happiness without the magical spectacles. Maybe the glasses can help someone else?!

Who will enjoy this wordless picture book?

Rosie’s Glasses is a wordless picture book for children pre-school to second grade. Families can spend time exploring pages and discussing what they see and understand. Each page is almost like a Where’s Waldo scene, and I love the parallel worlds from monotone to rainbow. The moral of finding the light within with a little nudge is inspiring for kids suffering from mild depression, loneliness, dread, or anxiety. Books like Rosie’s Glasses are needed to help children understand how to cope with disappointment and bad days. When words cannot explain how we feel, pictures can.

I would like to thank NetGalley and Kids Can Press for providing me with a free advanced copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Full review is set to post on theuncorkedlibrarian.com by October 12 at: https://theuncorkedlibrarian.com/picture-books-about-mental-health/

The saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” comes true in this wordless picture book. As Rosie starts her day, there is a little black cloud hanging over her. Her day and the book’s pages are filled with monochrome images, giving the reader the gloomy, down feeling that Rosie must be experiencing. Then, a colorful butterfly leads Rosie to a pair of glasses, that once she puts them on, the black and white world around her is filled with color. There are joy and happiness. Then, she drops the glasses, and it starts to look like things will return to the gloominess. But, a puppy comes running to her and happiness returns. Another child, who has a dark cloud hanging over his head, finds the glasses.

This is a great book for parents and children to read together. Parents should use it as a tool to help children talk about their gloomy days.

For more, check out The Storybook Project at : https://thesbproject.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/rosies-glasses/

A wordless picture book, so much is told about the story without words. I was pleasantly surprised. The imagination in coming up with your own story to go with the well detailed illustrations.

This was a cute book about a girl having a tough time appreciating her day until she literally gets to see the world around her with rose-colored glasses.

Much thanks to NetGalley and Kids Can Press for this DRC!
What a wonderful way to learn about perception!
In a book without words everything conveyed would differ depending on your perception...
very very clever!

I'm not going to lie, I really struggle with straight up picture books. I thought I would give it a try, but I really need some words. This is a great starter book for kids to get them interested in reading. It's a cute story about seeing the world through different eyes, or, in Rosie's case, glasses. It is one of those books that really is best for those with little kids.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Author: Dave Whamond
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Publication Date: September 4th 2018

Rosie wakes up under a black cloud. Everything and everyone around her seems dull or sad. School appears to be an ominous and dreary place. Even the park seems bleak until a butterfly leads her to a pair of glasses. Suddenly, she sees everything in color. Everything is looking better and more cheerful, and eventually she gets to the place where maybe she doesn’t need the glasses to see in color.

This is a wordless book and therefore open to a lot of interpretation. I can’t tell if the author is trying to just say that Rosie was having a bad day and everything looked bleak, or if she was suffering from something a little more severe, like depression. I’d actually guess it is the latter and that the glasses represent something to help get her out of the depression but that she won’t need forever. But that’s just my guess. If that’s right, it is definitely a unique book because I’ve never seen anything on depression for kids. Definitely a good book to get readers debating about how they interpret the pictures. Also a good book to open up a discussion about feelings and deeper issues like depression (whether their own or that of an adult they know and care about). And kids who like books with vibrant colors will absolutely love the world after Rosie puts on her glasses.

<i>I received an ARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.</i>

This wordless picture book follows Rosie, who begins her day in a black & white world and in a gray mood. Rosie's "gray" day continues until she stumbles upon a magical pair of glasses that turn her world into a colorful journey.

The first thing I thought of when reading was that this would be a good way of discussing color blindness to students. However, it can also be used to illustrate how we view the world. Overall great picture book for young readers!

I think we have all had days that just seem blah and gray. This wordless picture book tells a story of someone who starts out having one of those days. But then something happens!!!!! Now things aren't gray and blah anymore. The world is full of possibilities, until it looks like things might turn gray again. Was the first change so powerful that the blahs can't come back?
This would be great to use in a classroom to explore cause and effect as well as problem and solution. It will also work for practicing careful observation as well as creating a story to go along with the pictures instead of the other way around!

We all have our days where the world just seems gray, gloomy and sad! We wake up on the wrong side of the bed, we get off on the wrong foot and nothing seems to be going right! What if on days like these we could just slip on our rose-colored glasses and POOF!...Everything is right with the world! Now you can see beautiful butterflies, birds chirping, flowers and rainbows! In case you cannot find your rose-colored glasses, read Rosie's Glasses, which is sure to brighten up your day! This book is so bright and colorful it will leave you with nothing but smiles and happiness!

Rosie wakes up in a gray world with a cloud over her head in this wordless picture book. She gets ready for school (her room is a mess and she looks sad), eats breakfast (parents seem unhappy, too), walks to school (everyone, even the dog in the picture is sad), is bored with class (classmates look uninterested as well the teacher) and her life continues to have a dark cloud following her in the black, gray, and white illustrations as she heads home.

But when a bright yellow butterfly leads her to a bridge where she sees some red glasses, things abruptly change. (So far the illustrations are monochrome with the exception of the butterfly and the glasses.) When Rosie picks the glasses up and puts them on, the world changes to bright colors! But not only are things in color, but people look happy.

When Rosie gets home, still wearing her glasses, her dog greets her with excitement, the pictures on her bedroom wall are smiling rather than looking sober. On the way to school she sees that people on the sidewalk are smiling, even the teacher and classmates are having fun. Rosie is seeing happiness through her red glasses.

But, an unfortunate thing happens: when she leans over the bridge where she first found the red glasses, they fall off.

Will she revert to a grey world of unhappiness? What will become of the glasses?

What Concerned Me: Though the publisher recommends the book for ages 3 - 7, I wonder if older, rather than younger kids will be able to discuss the meaning and gain more from the book. I would guess it depends on the maturity of the child.

Though I loved the idea of the illustrations, monochrome to color, they were very busy and felt a little off for children.

What I Loved Most: I love the ability to have discussions about what the book means to various individuals. I see it as a wonderful classroom book to share, as well as one-on-one. This wordless story says plenty.

It's an awesome book, and I think it's one that will grow on you the more you think about it.

Rosie's Glasses
by Dave Whamond
Kids Can Press
Children's Fiction


I received this ebook in an exchange for an honest review. I thank Netgalley, the author and publisher.






Rosie wakes up in a bad mood. She is not happy for some reason.

Part of the book is done in black and white, giving it a grayish gloomy feeling. Rosie has a black cloud over her head.

Different things happen at school and Rosie is still unhappy.


ON the walk home Rosie sees a lovely colorful butterfly. She follows it and finds a pair of glasses.

When she tries them on she discovers that what she sees through the lenses is colorful, vivid and pretty.

Are the glasses magical??


People are smiling and Rosie is too, with the glasses on.


This book was done in all illustrations and no words.