What Makes Me Happy? - Softcover

Catherine and Laurence Anholt are one of the world's leading author and illustrator partnerships. A husband and wife partnership, they have produced around ninety children's books and have won numerous awards, including the Nestle Smarties Gold Book Prize for Chimp and Zee. They live in Lyme Regis, England.

Ages 2^-5. With an easy rhyme and lots of clear, detailed line-and-watercolor pictures, the Anholts once again dramatize the small child's daily life. Like Shirley Hughes' illustrations, the pictures here can be starting points for kids to talk about themselves. They will absorb vocabulary and concepts as they are caught up in the stories. This time the focus is on feelings. Six boys and girls, including a set of twins, express what makes them happy, scared, jealous, shy, excited, sad ("No one wants to let me play. Someone special's far away" ). The scenes are sometimes intense, sometimes light, often mischievous. "What makes me bored? Grown-ups . . . moaning groaning eating meeting walking talking." Hazel Rochman