"My Glasses" is about a little girl who does not want eyeglasses. But after her vision gets worse, she has a change of heart. In the end, she enjoys picking out and wearing her new glasses.

Junie B. thinks first grade is a flop when her kindergarten friend Lucille prefers the company of twins Chamille and Chenille, and Junie B. learns that she needs glasses.

In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes -- from the French publisher who invented the phonograph before Edison but forgot to...