The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth

A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2021A Publishers Weekly High-Concept Picture Book for ChildrenA CCBC...
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Author: Bruce Handy
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Language: English
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The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth by Handy, Bruce

The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth

CHF 25.19

The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth

CHF 25.19
Author: Bruce Handy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2021

A Publishers Weekly High-Concept Picture Book for Children

A CCBC (Cooperative Children's Book Center) Choices Best Children's Book, 2022


Is there any creature in the world happier than a dog with a ball in its mouth? Maybe a cat in the sun? Or a kid eating ice cream? This gentle book, with its soft and evocative colored pencil illustrations, is philosophical in its approach to the millions of forms that happiness can take, as well as the contrasting disappointments and sorrows that we encounter as we navigate our lives.


Starting from the happiness of waking up into a brand-new day, the book goes on to explore the kinds of relationships and contrasts that play out between our feelings and experiences. These contrasts play out beautifully across the page from left to right, and across a couple of long gatefold pages. 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. They also lead us to think about the substance of our happiness, and what the ingredients of it might be. Written with subtlety and nuance and illustrated in pencil, pen and watercolor with great tenderness, The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in its Mouth is a gentle, fun, and philosophical read, with which one can start and end the day.



Author: Bruce Handy
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Published: 03/30/2021
Pages: 56
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 9.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781592703517
Audience: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/01/2021
Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2021
School Library Journal 03/01/2021 pg. 78

About the Author
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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