James DeanPete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses

I read this to my child’s 1st grade class. Age appropriate and all were engaged. A main phrase was repeated throughout the story, which kept the story building up and entertaining for that age group.Cute story for someone down in the dumps, that may need a pick me up.

Used for a class of 4-6 year olds to discuss learning to "look for the good". They enjoyed the story, it sparked a great conversation, and the learners flipped through the book on their own multiple times during free play.

Huge Pete the Cat fan here! Fell in love with  Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes ! I loved that book and really like the others I have read... This new book may be a new favorite! I love the feel good message it ends with. In true Pete the Cat fashion it makes you want to get up and dance!In Pete the Cat and his Magic Sunglasses we find Pete a little blue till he meets grumpy frog driving a motorcycle. Guess what, today Grumpy Frog was not grumpy. He had on cool blue sunglasses that makes the blues go away! Pete puts on the glasses and sees thing in a new way! Life is ALL GOOD again for Pete. He goes along the way meeting many different sad animals that also try on the sunglasses and become happy. After sharing the cheer with many animals Pete ends up breaking his sunglasses and learning a great lesson from a Wise Owl. The Owl reminds Pete that he doesn't need magic sunglasses to see things in a new way. He reminds Pete to just look for the GOOD in every day! Owl's advice works!!!The animals in this book are too cute and so fun to look at. The text is catchy as always and the illustrations just suck you in to Pete's world! I am so happy to see another GREAT Pete book that I can share with my favorite kiddos young and old! Kuddos to Kinberly and James Dean on another awesome book! This is a must have for your Children's Literature book shelf!

I love this book. Love the story and the illustrations. The new characters being introduced are wonderful and their representation so original.The colors are bright and refreshing as all of Dean's creations have been. I found myself enthralled by them all. I've read many of the reviews and have to agree that it is somewhat different from the earlier Pete books like White Shoes etc, but the story seems to be a little more mature in theme and that's a good thing. The first book White Shoes was great but the following books seem to lose originality and became very repetitive and simplistic with little if any of what could be called a story line. Someone commented on something being forced and that is what the last couple of books were getting to be. It was obvious that the success for the books was being driven by the strength of the character (Pete)not the story. The very small children who were so entranced by the first books are growing and this book seems perfect for them as the story line has grown in maturity with them. At first I too missed the little song but the maturity level of this story line and it's message makes the little song ditty unnecessary. In talking with other Pete Fans I've found that a huge number of them never downloaded the song in the first place, just made it up as they went. White Shoes was magic but so is Sunglasses!

Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses is another good social-emotional book for my collection.i like the concept of getting out of a grumpy mood by looking for all things that are good that's happening around us namely the sun shining etc, etc. thus teaching social-emotional regulation and self-soothing techniques. the only thing silly about the sunglasses is that the y seem to be multiplying as Pete meets each new character in the story not that the kids would notice

Bought for my pre-K class for first day read. Gave all the kids magic sunglasses to get through the hard moments. Never met a kid who didnt love Pete the Cat books!

I read Magic sunglasses for my 6 year old daughter. She tends to love these set a lot. It help for her to express her feelings and things will be alright, just find a good thing instead of searching for bad things.

I like Pete the cat and the books have a great message. This one however is not as “groovy” as the others. I didn’t like it as much”

Book has a message that we should look at each day in a positive way. Enjoyed this Pete the Cat book.

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このシリーズは好きなので喜んでました。届くのに1ヶ月近くかかったのでもっと他も注文しとけば良かったなー

Fantastic book! We read all the Pete the Cat books at school. Started with 'white shoes', then 'buttons' , 'saving christmas', 'New shoes', 'new guy' and ending our school year with 'the magic sunglasses'. To say that the children were engaged with the story/stories is an understatement. They took the character to their hearts and I used him to inspire their learning throughout the year (I also have the puppet). This book is amazing. The pictures are bright and colourful and has a really nice message about being brave and happy with what you have. We made our own sunglasses and wrote about what magic they may have. Well recommended.

We really enjoyed reading this book...repeatedly lol.