Happy

Beskrywing

BACKGROUND

A near-wordless picture book for young children from 0-6 with bright fish that express different emotions – from excited to sad, shy to proud, and from angry to happy. The fish and the single words of the emotions that each one express is drawn by the well-known children’s book illustrator Mies van Hout, by using oil pastel and wax crayon on a black background in her characteristic expressive style. The book is an international success and was nominated for the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in Germany.

This publication is also available in Afrikaans, Vrolik.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR

Mies van Hout (Eindhoven, 1962) works as illustrator and graphic designer since 1989. She especially illustrates her own picture books for children, but also illustrate for writers such as Paul Biegel, Vivian den Hollander en Hanna Kraan. Her first book, Kiki en Pim: een tweeling van drie was published in 1988. Her books have been published in more than twenty languages. In 2015 Mies van Hout made the picture book for the Dutch Children’s Book Week, commissioned by CPNB.

READER PROFILE

Baby, Toddler, Pre-school

Especially for young children and toddlers who for the first time discover the complexity of experiencing different emotions and young children who start to read and begin to decipher words such as “brave”, “shy”, “angry”, “proud” and “happy”.