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FORMAT: Paperback / SoftbackISBN: 9781916205420
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Happy Sad
By (author) Pippa Goodhart and (illustrator) Augusta Kirkwood
Award-winning author Pippa Goodhart and illustrator Augusta Kirkwood have come together again, after their wonderful 2019 collaboration Daddy Frog and the Moon , to create this beautiful picture book about empathy and love. In a time when themes of friendship, love, family and loss are a focus of conversation, this gentle story with its fabulous illustrations will help parents and children come together to uncover the meaning of empathy. Can you be happy and sad at the same time? When Toby finds a mermaid stranded in a rock pool on the beach he takes her home and tries to cheer her up with songs, stories and a paddling pool full of bubbles. For a while Toby and the mermaid have fun but the more the mermaid sees the love Toby and his family have for each other the more she misses her own family and home. A story about feelings, love, happiness and letting go.
Pippa Goodhart
Pippa lives just outside Cambridge. Having started work in the book world as a sixteen year old doing a Saturday job in Heffers Bookshop, she went on to become a publisher’s reader, a writer, and a teacher of writing for children. She has written over a hundred books for children. Shortlisted for numerous awards, she won the Historical Association’s Young Quills Award for best MG children’s historical novel 2019, won Mumsnet’s Book of the Year for 3-4 Year Olds, and York Libraries ‘Best Picture Book Ever’ awards with her picture book ‘You Choose’, illustrated by Nick Sharratt. She also writes under the name of Laura Owen when writing the Winnie the Witch storybooks. She enjoys working with primary school children on author visits. See her website: www.pippagoodhart.co.uk School visits can be booked direct or via Authors Aloud or Contact An Author. Twitter: @pippagoodhart