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Smile Lily

illus­trat­ed by Yumi Heo
Anne Schwartz Books
Atheneum, 2004
9781481417945
ages 4 to 8

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After you’ve read Smile, Lily!, try this book:

Smile, Lily!

Lily won’t stop cry­ing.
Waa! Waa! Waa!
Lily won’t stop cry­ing.
Oh, who knows what to do?
Moth­er? Father? Grand­ma?
Who?
Who?
Who?

Reviews

“Baby Lily is incon­solable. One by one, each mem­ber of her fam­i­ly tries to stop her tears with lul­la­bies, tick­les, a dia­per change, food, and toys. How­ev­er, the refrain points up each one’s fail­ure to com­fort the tot: “But Lily keeps on cry­ing. Waa! Waa! Waa! Lily keeps on cry­ing. Oh, who knows what to do?” Final­ly her broth­er smiles his biggest smile and in the cozy end­ing, Lily grins back at him. The boun­cy, rhyth­mic text begs to be read aloud, and the art­work is a per­fect match. Done in oils, pen­cil, and col­lage, the illus­tra­tions are filled with Heo’s famil­iar bright col­ors, and the play­ful shapes, forms, and details leap off the pages. Each spread plays with per­spec­tive and offers sur­pris­ing views of the action and char­ac­ters. This sat­is­fy­ing, buoy­ant pic­ture book will appeal to begin­ning read­ers as well as to sto­ry­time groups or dur­ing one-on-one shar­ing.” (Marge Loch-Wouters, School Library Jour­nal)