Big Berry: A Little Moral Story about Gratitude — Dan Yaccarino

There's nothing more important for kids entering preschool than to be emotionally ready -- ready to separate from their parents, to mix and play with new children, to broaden their sense of the world. HAPPYLAND, from award-winning children's author Dan Yaccarino, is a new series that gives kids, and their parents, the language they need to take these emotional steps.

HAPPYLAND introduces three friends -- Bink, Clyde, and Glub-Glub -- in a series of delightful adventures. In BIG BERRY, a story about gratitude, Bink follows a butterfly as it flits from one berry-bearing plant to the next. As the berries grow ever larger, Bink's desire for the biggest berry grows ever stronger -- until she grabs the very largest, which is so big it rolls away and disappears. If only she'd been happy with the normal-sized berry.

Dan Yaccarino's bold, colorful art and simple, direct style lifts these moral stories into the realm of perfectly engaging parables.