What Makes Me Happy?
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--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.