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- ISBN 9781805137955
- Dimensions: 250 x 290mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A comforting story about dealing with big life changes - moving house and starting a new school.
Every day, when Mama collects me from school, she says, "What made you smile today?"And, every day, I tell her all the things that made me smile. Sometimes, there's only one, but, like Mama says . . . sometimes, one smile is all we need.
Moving house and starting a new school can be difficult, but one little girl's mama has just the thing to help: a smile jar. As the girl draws pictures of all the little things that make her smile - from her new bedroom to the friendly children upstairs - and puts them in the jar, everything starts to feel just a little bit better. Sometimes there are lots of things to smile about, but sometimes one smile is all you need.
With a gentle, moving text from Lou Peacock (A Whale of A Time) and heartfelt illustrations from Raquel Catalina (I, Remember), this beautiful story will leave you asking, "What made you smile today?"
Includes a FREE Nosy Crow Stories Aloud® audiobook! Scan the code, hear the story.
Lou Peacock (Author)
Lou Peacock loves words, stories and poems and has nearly thirty years of experience in children's publishing. She is Nosy Crow's Publishing Director at Large for Picture Books, and her own stories have been published in nearly 30 languages. Lou's previous poetry anthology - the highly-acclaimed A Whale of a Time, illustrated by Matt Hunt - was a Waterstones Book of the Year in 2023 and also The Times book of the week. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and son and their small black fluffy dog called Lyra.
Raquel Catalina (Illustrator)
Raquel Catalina is a Spanish illustrator. As a child, any surface was a canvas for her art: wallpaper, school desks, book margins - even her own skin! Today, little has changed, except for the wallpaper.
Raquel studied Fine Arts in Madrid. Nowadays she mainly illustrates children's books. She has been shortlisted to exhibit her work at the Bologna Children's Book Fair as well as in México, Portugal and Spain.
