You Are My Happy

by Patricia Hegarty, Thomas Elliott (Illustrator)

Overview

Celebrate love and togetherness in this enchanting book for babies from bestselling author Patricia Hegarty!

Wake up, baby, it's a brand-new day! Join along with mamma turtle and her little one as they explore their big, beautiful world. Written with Patricia Hegarty's gentle rhyming text and the heartfelt message of love and togetherness, this rhyming board book will capture the hearts and minds of parents and toddlers. Featuring interactive die cuts for little ones to peek through and gorgeous full-color illustrations, You Are My Happy will inspire repeat reads for years to come!

This I love you book is a perfect Easter basket stuffer for ages 0-3, gift for new parents, holiday stocking stuffer, first birthday gift, or bedtime read aloud for anytime of year!

Why readers love You Are My Happy:

• Perfect for babies and toddlers. Made for their little hands!
• Interactive die cut format and sweet baby animals makes for an engaging bedtime read aloud
• Beautiful, full color illustrations
• A heartfelt gift for new parents or baby showers
• Perfect Easter basket stuffer, Mother's Day gift, Valentine's Day gift, or holiday stocking stuffer for baby!

Wherever you are,

wherever you go,

Baby, I'll always

love you so.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728235097
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	08/03/2021
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	683,109
Product dimensions:	9.45(w) x 11.35(h) x 0.33(d)
Lexile:	AD350L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Patricia Hegarty began working in children's publishing more years ago than she cares to remember and is now Editorial Director at Caterpillar Books. As an editor, she has worked on titles ranging from atlases to animal pop-ups, craft kits to crazy mazes, and sticker books to secret diaries.

Thomas Elliott is a children's book illustrator and art director based in London, England.

Editorial Reviews

"Ingenious ... Hegarty’s rhymed narrative features lots of tender sentiments ... A clear winner." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2021-09-24
Parent and child share a day of small adventures and cozy snuggles.

That the two happen to be tortoises is totally beside the point. Die-cut holes and shaped edges turn nearly every page flip into a surprise. Following a parental “Good morning, Baby” to greet the youngling’s “Wake up, wake up, I want to play… / The sun is up, it’s a brand new day!” the two reptiles ramble off to munch on leaves, weather a sudden rain shower, discover a flock of butterflies, climb a hill, watch the moon rise, and, at last, weary little one perched on top, settle down to snooze again. The paper engineering is ingenious. Turning a seemingly arbitrarily shaped page with a special window framing a pink butterfly fills the spread with many jewel-toned insects; even though the tortoises never change position, the scene is completely transformed. Hegarty’s rhymed narrative features lots of tender sentiments—“Wherever you are, wherever you go, / Baby, I’ll always love you so”—while steering clear of any gender references. In Elliott’s peaceful, grassy settings the wanderers’ small smiles and shared glances likewise create a sense of loving intimacy. This is likely to become a victim of its own appeal, being as the paper stock is rather too flimsy to survive much contact with toddler hands. Still, a clear winner for sharing with audiences of one or dozens.

Guess how much you’ll be reading this. (Novelty. 18 mos.-3)

Kirkus Reviews