Learn your way to happy by Bernie Hayne. Illus. by Valery Vell

This is a beautifully written book and a follow up to Bernie Hayne's first first book, Smile Your Way To Happy. The illustrations are cartoony, almost Cocomelon-like, so will appeal greatly to young ones. The book follows young people as they grow and provides inspiration advice told in rhyming verse ('Everyday is a chance to learn-what will it be today? Can you tie your shoelaces to get you on your way?') Readers are urged to take little steps that help get them though the day, to set goals and work to achieve them, to learn to share, to help mum and dad and to care about others because that's 'what life is all about'. 

Learn Your Way To Happy is an uplifting and positive reminder about doing the best we can both for ourselves and others. It reads beautifully aloud and the illustrations are bright and culturally diverse.

Themes: Positive psychology, Happiness, Life Skills, Rhyming Stories.

Nicole Nelson