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Illustrated by
Philippe Goossens.
When Sophie asks Willard to play, he laughs at her, and she literally loses her smile. Her aunt Grumbler claims, "I bet Willard laughed because he likes you." Armed with this assertion, Sophie confronts Willard and gets her smile back. Textured paintings in glowing colors grab the reader's attention; the huge smile on Sophie's round face provides a dramatic finale for this story.