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Schneider, Antonie

Mr. Happy & Miss Grimm

24 pp. | Holiday | May, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-3198-4 $16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Susanne Strasser. When some of Mr. Happy's seeds float over from his garden to next-door neighbor Miss Grimm's bleak yard, she is angry. But a pair of giant sunflowers pushes their houses together, and friendship blossoms, along with a riotous collage garden. The text is unabashedly folktale binary (happy is good; sad is bad) with a touch of positive thinking; illustrations with a European sensibility lend subtlety.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2015