An endearing and heart-warming tale guaranteed to make everyone smile.
When Little Roo wakes up, he just feels grumpy. He doesn't want to play and he doesn't know why. His mother tries to cheer him up by playing in the leaves, hiding in their favourite hidey hole and tickling him but nothing she does makes any difference. Then she whisks Little Roo away in her pouch and they bounce off down hill - towards a wide, deep and muddy-at-the-bottom hole. They career straight in to the hole and his mother looks so very funny that little Roo can't help himself - he just has to smile!
Praise for Sam McBratney's Guess How Much I Love You:
"Ten years ago, Guess How Much I Love You became an instant family favourite. Since then, this endearing tale of love has become a classic" Bella
It's Lovely When You Smile is a brand new picture book by the award-winning and much loved Sam McBratney, author of the 16 million copy selling Guess How Much I Love You, and distinguished illustrator Charles Fuge - shortlisted for the prestigious Kate Greenaway medal for Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball.
It's Lovely When You Smile is an endearing, heartwarming tale, about a baby kangaroo and his mum, accompanied with truly beautiful illustration. The book provides a touching representation of the love between a mother and child, and the characterisation, particularly of grumpy Roo is fabulous. The text is as bouncy as the sideways jumps Roo's mum undertakes to cheer up her son, and both parents and children will be enchanted by the myriad ways she tries to coax him out of his bad mood.
Sam McBratney has been writing children's books for nearly thirty years. He lives on the edge of Lough Neath near Belfast. Charles Fuge is fast establishing himself as a rising star in picture books, and lives in Dorset.
It's Lovely When You Smile is the first in a series of planned Little Roo books, a gorgeous character, bound to put a smile on plenty of faces.
