"A . . . book that celebrates happiness and invites children to reflect on the little things in life that bring them joy"--Provided by publisher.

Annie Hebden is stuck. Stuck in her boring job, with her irritating roommate, in a life no thirty-five-year-old would want. But deep down, Annie is still mourning the terrible loss that tore a hole through the perfect existence she'd once taken for granted -- and hiding away is safer than remembering what used to be. Until she meets the eccentric Polly Leonard. Bright, bubbly, intrusive Polly is everything Annie doesn't want in a friend. But Polly...

"Pepper, Boo, and the Cat celebrate a special day with big and small things, cat and dog things, as well as inside and outside things"-- Provided by publisher.

A passionate film buff, the hero's life revolves around his part-time job at a video store, the company of a few precious friends, and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and a movie in his treasured small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency, everything will tumble into madness as he calls the hotline night and day to find out why he is the recipient of the...

"One day, two dead people meet Seoho just before crossing the river of oblivion. In order to become a phoenix, one trades places with Seoho, who needs a sip of hot blood from a thousand people, and returns to the town where he lived in exchange for getting to be in the town for 39 days. However, their appearances are not the same as when they were alive, so they cannot walk outside. The two characters, who had been hotel chefs, spend forty-nine days...

"Drawing a happy cat seems like such an easy thing to do. Just follow the instructions in this book! Wait a minute...why doesn't Cat look happy? We gave her a stuffy and a cool t-shirt! Uh-oh! Turns out drawing a happy cat is harder than it looks"-- Provided by publisher.

Sometimes the happiness we're looking for has been there all along. Adele and Justine have never been close. Born twenty years apart, Justine was already an adult when Addie was born. The sisters love each other but they don't really know each other. When Addie dropped out of university to care for their ailing parents, Justine, a successful lawyer, covered the expenses. It was the best arrangement at the time but now that their parents are gone,...

En la montaña quieres estar en el mar y en el mar sientes nostalgia de la montaña. Solamente hay un lugar donde quieres quedarte para siempre: a su lado. Wherever he is, and whatever he is doing, a bear is never happy and always wants to be somewhere else, doing something different, except when he is with one special bear.

The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, Skin Again offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much--what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond skin, going straight to the heart, we find in each other...