Happy Heart

by Hannah Eliot, Susie Hammer (Illustrator)

Overview

Celebrate the ones you love with this adorable glittery heart-shaped board book!

You are the sun in my sky.
You are the apple of my eye.
You mean the world to me.
You make my heart so happy.

Each page of this adorable board book is die-cut in a different shape. With sweet, loving text, bright, happy illustrations from Susie Hammer, and glitter on every page, Happy Heart is perfect to share with someone you love!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534432024
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	12/03/2019
Pages:	14
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	1 - 5 Years

About the Author

Hannah Eliot is a children’s book editor who lives in Vermont. Her favorite activities include editing (of course), writing, drawing, and spending time with her family!

Susie Hammer is a Polish illustrator and graphic designer based in Madrid. Susie uses simple shapes and vivid colors to create a playful, happy imaginary world. She loves drawing and painting and mixing techniques to create something different with each project. Although she works mostly digitally, her hands are frequently stained with all the colors of the rainbow. Susie’s illustrations can be found on textiles, paper goods, and in magazines and books throughout Europe. When she is not daydreaming about dogs driving cars, Susie can be found teaching art workshops for children.

Editorial Reviews

2019-11-24
In this heart-shaped confection, the narrator declares their love for young readers.

The edges of each page are cut into different designs to emulate the sun's rays, the outlines of trees, the Earth, flowers, and more and are frosted with a sparkly layer of glitter that resists the energetic rubbing of little fingers. In the center of each image is a tiny, emoji-like icon grinning at readers, and brightly colored accompanying spot art is sprinkled throughout. Enthusiastic, mostly rhyming text appears in a multicolored type on the verso. The pages increase in size with each page turn, for a layered look when closed, culminating with a giant heart that bookends the smaller opening one as the prose declares: "For you my heart grows / because I love you so!" While the binding is narrow, the whole enterprise is considerably sturdy. It's an entirely forgettable but bright bagatelle, good for a few readings.

It is a hug, a kiss, and a valentine rolled into one—and just as fleeting. (Board book. 6 mos.-3)

Kirkus Reviews