Happy To Be Girls

By Sarah Davies

Do you know a great girl? A wild girl, a free girl? A happy as can be girl? As this fresh, funny take on girl power attests, being a girl is all about being whoever you want to be. A girl can be athletic or artistic, thoughtful or silly or bold. And she can be just as fierce painting a mural as climbing a mountain. With an energetic rhyming text and luminous illustrations that showcase the diversity of girls at work and play, this is a book to make any girl happy just to be herself, and makes a perfect gift for a favourite girl, whether little or all grown up.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399239839
• ISBN13: 9780399239830
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.3" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 2 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

My girls love it

This is the first book my 4 year old has memorized and reads to me. Both my daughters love it. They enjoy finding 'themselves' in the various illustrations. I love the message that girls can be smart or sticky or scary. I wish I had been able to read it when I was little.

Great!

Great! rhyming text, pictures showing girls of all ethnicities being active, brave, creative. Inspiring! Minimal text on each page. Age 1.0+ My 2.5 y.o daughter wanted it read over and over.

A wonderful celebration of being a girl!

When I read the review featured under this book I was very dissapointed because this book is special. As the mother of three children, two of which are daughters I was excited to find a book that so aptly fit the younger of my two girls. She is a Tomboy in every sense of the word and sometimes it is hard to find books that feature female characters with the same zest for life and excitement of adventure that my daughter has. This book is about girls who are bold and strong, who love adventure every bit as much as their boy counterparts, and who aren't afraid to get dirty. It celebrates the intelligent,sporty, fun-loving, and sometimes messy part of all girls. This book is a wonderful illustration of the fact that being a girl is what you make it because every girl is different. You don't have to be a boy to be smart and to have fun.