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Happy to be Me

by Emma Dodd

Interest age: 2 to 5

Published by Orchard Books, 2019

  • Non-fiction
  • Picture books
  • Disability

About this book

Our bodies are incredible things. Mouths can smile and giggle, arms can hug, tongues can taste, fingers can play musical instruments, noses can smell and heads can generate all kinds of great ideas. Above all, hearts can love.

With simple, rhyming text and bright, colourful artwork, this delightful picture book celebrates every bit of the human body. It also reminds us that each and every body is different, with its diverse cast of young friends including a wheelchair-user, a child with a hearing aid and characters with glasses.

Another success from the bestselling author-illustrator.

About the author

Emma Dodd was brought up in Guildford, Surrey, in a family of artists. As a child she loved the work of Peter Firmin, John Burningham and Gerald Rose and from as far back as she can remember she wanted to be an illustrator.

Emma studied graphic design and Illustration at Central Saint Martin's School of Art and has worked in advertising, editorial and book illustration. She has illustrated bestselling Noisy Noisy series for Ladybird Books and, with author Giles Andreae, won a Book Trust Early Years Award in 2010 for I Love My Mummy.

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