ABSTRACT
This book is designed as a guide to help the readers put their students’ happiness at the center of learning without sacrificing the literacy goals they are striving to support their students to achieve. Tullet’s interactive picture books are visually stunning and invite readers to play through a series of simple, colored dots. According to UNICEF, the children of the United States are the second least happy children in the world as detailed in the UNICEF Report Card on children’s well-being in the twenty-nine wealthiest countries. Rates of depression are ten times higher today than they were in the 1960s, and the average age for the onset of depression is fourteen and a half compared with twenty-nine and a half in 1960. People, everywhere and always, have sought the key to happiness. Aristotle declared happiness to be summum bonum, the chief good. Over 2000 years later, the quest for the chief good continues.
