Synopses & Reviews
Rainy Day is a book about worry—and how good it feels to let it go—perfect for kids who are anxious about the weather, their first day at school, or making a new friend.
Parents and kids know Dan Yaccarino from his prodigious career in children’s entertainment, which includes over three dozen books and three hit television shows: Oswald, The Backyardigans, and the Emmy-winning Willa’s Wild Life. Now the ALA and Parent’s Choice Award-winning author and illustrator has created three brand-new board books perfect to get every prekindergarten kid ready for preschool.Meet Bink, Glub Club, and Clyde—three friends and residents of Happyland. Each book in the series follows their adventures and illustrates one of three key emotional concepts—worry, gratitude, and sharing—to help children with their social and emotional development and ready them for preschool. They are the perfect parables: engaging, entertaining, and never smug or sanctimonious.
Synopsis
In Rainy Day, Glub-Glub worries so much about getting wet that he almost misses all the fun of frolicking in the rain.
HAPPYLAND introduces three friends Bink, Clyde, and Glub-Glub in a series of delightful adventures that illustrate issues including sharing, gratitude, and worry.
There s nothing more important for little kids entering preschool than to be emotionally ready ready to separate from their parents, to mix and play with new children, to broaden their sense of the world. HAPPYLAND, from award-winning children s author Dan Yaccarino, is the board book series that gives kids, and their parents, the language they need to take these emotional steps.
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Synopsis
There’s nothing more important for kids entering preschool than to be emotionally ready—ready to separate from their parents, to mix and play with new children, to broaden their sense of the world. HAPPYLAND, from award-winning children’s author Dan Yaccarino, is a new board book series that gives kids, and their parents, the language they need to take these emotional steps.
HAPPYLAND introduces three friends—Bink, Clyde, and Glub-Glub—in a series of delightful adventures. In RAINY DAY, Glub-Glub worries so much about impending bad weather that he spends all day preparing—and almost misses all the fun of frolicking in the rain.
Dan Yaccarino’s bold, colorful art and simple, direct style lifts these moral stories into the realm of perfectly engaging parables.