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The happiness of a dog with a ball in its mouth

"Starting from the happiness of waking up into a brand-new day, the picture book goes on to explore the kinds of relationships and contrasts that play out between our feelings and experiences every single day. Whether it's the nervousness of a beginning paired with the happiness of a middle; the ind...

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Main Author: Handy, Bruce (Author)
Other Authors: Yum, Hyewon (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Enchanted Lion Books, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
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Emotions > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
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Summary:"Starting from the happiness of waking up into a brand-new day, the picture book goes on to explore the kinds of relationships and contrasts that play out between our feelings and experiences every single day. Whether it's the nervousness of a beginning paired with the happiness of a middle; the indignity of a cut against the happiness of a scab; the boredom of nothing to do contrasted with the happiness of nothing to do; or the divide of mine against the happiness of our, these pages challenge the reader to think about daily activities and experiences and the feelings they conjure. The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth is a gentle, fun, and philosophical read"--
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ;24 cm
Audience:Ages 4-10.
Grades 2-3.
ISBN:9781592703517
1592703518
Author Notes:Bruce Handy is an author, journalist, essayist, critic, humorist, and editor. The Happiness of a Dog With a Ball in Its Mouth is his first book for young readers. He is also the author of Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult , published in 2017 by Simon & Schuster. Handy has also worked as a writer-editor at Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire , and Spy and has contributed to the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, New York , and the New Yorker , as well as other publications that don't have New York in their titles, including the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal . He currently lives in New York with his wife, the novelist Helen Schulman. They have two mostly grown kids. Hyewon Yum is an author and illustrator of many picture books, including Lion Needs a Haircut , and Saturday is Swimming Day , which won a Charlotte Zolotow honor. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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