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SPIRIT INSPIR JNF COV

Join several animal friends as they learn life lessons using the seven habits. Kids will learn the power of using principles in a fun way.

LIFE JNF DYE

Presents ten lessons for children that foster confidence and self-esteem, with advice on overcoming worry, dealing with change, making choices, keeping healthy, and being creative.

JE FORTIER

A young girl lists all of the things that she loves about her life.

E HIBBERT

Using simple illustrations and examples, this book teaches young children various words to use for positive feelings.

E HODGKINSON

A little girl searches all over the house for the smile that seems to have deserted her.

E KARST

An uplifting story of how one smile finds its way around the world, cheering up everyone along the way.

E KELLER

A young girl named Birdy talks about her smile, why she likes it, and tells the reader why smiling is such an important part of life.

E KLINE

Cosmo is a very happy dog. He knows that the key to happiness is in his imagination. He and his pal, Squirrely Shirley, set off on their first adventure to turn the world’s case of the “Whatever Blues” into rainbows and happiness.

E MCBRATNEY

A grumpy little kangaroo is having a bad day until his mother finds a way to make him smile.

LIFE J152.42 MCC

A child’s healthy self-concept and happiness is often the result of the encouraging words and actions of parents and others who help a child know they are loved, valued, and capable.

E MCCLOUD

Through sweet, simple prose and vivid illustrations, this book encourages positive behavior as children see how very easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love on a daily basis.

E MENCHIN

In order to answer her mother’s question about what would make her smile, a girl first asks various people, animals, and even the moon what makes them happy. What do you do when it seems as if nothing will make you happy? For one little girl, it’s a good time to take a survey, from subjects including a quick little rabbit (running around in a wheel), a balding gent (counting rings on a tree), a snazzy centipede (shoes, lots of shoes), and other sundry characters. Enlivened by his whimsical characters, Scott Menchin’s amusing story shows us that just doing what we love to do best can bring the biggest smiles of all.

ART JNF NEW

Art to Make You Smile shows young readers that fine art needn’t be intimidating, obtuse, arcane, or snobby—sometimes it’s just plain fun. Showcasing several different genres, including painting, sculpture, prints, and crafts, the eight pieces collected here feature grumpy monkeys, comic cheeseburgers, a huge snowball fight, and other works guaranteed to produce a grin. Easy-to-follow yet stimulating text invites children to look closely at these intriguing pieces, honing their powers of observation as well as their attention to detail.

E PARR

Relates things that make people feel good.

HUMOR JOKES 818.602 MOS

This GARGANTUAN volume features over 5,000 jokes for every instance and every occasion! The hilarity within will have kids, and even adults, laughing until their sides hurt. More goofy gags, one-liners, puns, riddles, kock-knock jokes, clever comebacks, treacherous tongue twisters, and gross-out jokes! Never a dull moment within these pages.

E RADUNSKY

Mr. and Mrs. Armadillo are very happy newlyweds who look forward to having a child, but get ten times the happiness they expected.

E RAYNER

After searching mountains, forests, oceans, and deserts to find his smile, Augustus the tiger finds it when he looks in a puddle, and realizes that “happiness is everywhere around him.”

E SIEGEL

A six-year-old boy travels to the coast to help his beloved grandmother find her smile.

E STEIN

A little girl’s smile as she skips down the street in New York inspires a neighbor to send cookies to her grandson in Mexico, and the good will soon spreads around the world.

E STURGES

Animal parents use their best tricks to make their babies smile, laugh, coo, and grin.

E WARHOLA

Jungle animals sing the verses of this popular song that encourages everyone to express their happiness through voice and movement.