{"id":34331,"date":"2014-08-14T13:44:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T17:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=34331"},"modified":"2014-08-17T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T16:24:30","slug":"happy-by-mies-van-hout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/happy-by-mies-van-hout\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy by Mies van Hout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/08\/Happy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34333\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/08\/Happy-800x648.jpg\" alt=\"Happy\" width=\"800\" height=\"648\" \/><\/a>The son woke up blasting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=happy%20pharrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pharrell Williams&#8217; &#8220;Happy&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0this morning which prompted me to exuberantly\u00a0sing praises for this splendiferous book of the same title. Having only recently discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miesvanhout.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mies van Hout<\/a>&#8216;s newest\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/surprise-by-mies-van-hout\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surprise<\/a>,<\/em> I&#8217;m quickly catching up with her earlier titles and goofily, gleefully adoring them all. [Stay tuned for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/friends-by-mies-van-hout\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Friends <\/em><\/a>coming soon\u00a0&#8230; ]\n<p>Every van Hout book encountered thus far is\u00a0a celebration of ingenious simplicity packaged in utter joy. Here, one word and one illustration of a single expressive fish graces each spread &#8230; and that&#8217;s just enough to elicit a flood of emotions with every turn of the page. &#8220;Curious&#8221; is a lavender-eyed yellow adventurer\u00a0with just the hint of a smile. &#8220;Brave&#8221; is a tiny\u00a0wanderer\u00a0in a dark waters, eyes pointed upward and beyond. &#8220;Surprised&#8221; looks like\u00a0a multi-hued, mouth-agaped bright angel. &#8220;Furious&#8221; is\u00a0surely having a bad-scale day. &#8220;Jealous&#8221; is\u00a0<em>not<\/em> pretty, but &#8220;glad&#8221; couldn&#8217;t be more dazzlingly\u00a0satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many more emotions are yours to explore &#8230; I can&#8217;t give too many more away here\u00a0because your shelves <em>need<\/em>\u00a0this book! Interestingly, you won&#8217;t see &#8220;Happy&#8221; repeated between the covers (love that originality!), but you&#8217;ll surely be &#8220;delighted&#8221; all the say to the\u00a0perfect final\u00a0page. As that &#8220;Happy&#8221;-dancing boy would say, #grateful indeed!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2011, 2012 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The son woke up blasting Pharrell Williams&#8217; &#8220;Happy&#8221;\u00a0this morning which prompted me to exuberantly\u00a0sing praises for this splendiferous book of the same title. 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