Review: The Gift of Happiness is indeed a most welcomed gift! Great job Michael and Rachel Yu!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2013
Giving a gift of happiness goes a long way. The Gift of Happiness reinforces the positive message of giving gifts, giving happiness and doing good deeds. It brings a smile of people’s faces, brightens up their day, and eases their troubles. That is what this book is about and it espouses the values of kindness, goodness, caring, and treating others as you would like to be treated. Great job Michael and Rachel Yu! The Gift of Happiness is indeed a most welcomed gift in this holiday season and time of giving, peace and merriment but serves as a forceful reminder of a lesson we all need to remember and one the kids need to learn and remember all year through. It is beautifully illustrated and perfectly captures the messages synonymous with the lesson of giving and giving to the less fortunate. Zout and Zappy are seemingly opposites and though initially Zout disagrees with Zappy’s giving nature and his heart of gold, Zappy’s good nature radiates to Zout who shares with Zappy in the end who ends up without anything because he has given to those in need. The rhyming pattern and beautiful pictures perfectly compliment the storyline and make it an ideal gift for any child for any time of the year. It is one I recommend highly.