And the Pursuit of Happiness

And the Pursuit of HappinessBy: Maira Kalman Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections, celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman traveled to Washington, D. C., launching a year long investigation of American democracy and its workings. The result is an artists idiosyncratic vision of history and contemporary politics. Whether returning to Americas historical roots at the Lincoln archive and Jeffersons Monticello, or taking the pulse of the present day at a town hall meeting in

- Vasilisa and Prince Vladimir

each ready to be read in five minutes or less

Each scene has a delicate line drawing to colour in and a colourful picture to fill with rub-down transfers of dazzling butterflies

compelling prose

Who says that fun has to end when the summer does

starring the bravest scaredy-cat in the world

the inside knowledge of a dying aristocrat

Join the King and Queen as they throw a party for their new baby

But when his hard-boiled goose eggs turn out to be real

perfect for building vocabulary and developing speech

作者：大衛・卡利（Davide Cali）｜繪者：菈菲爾・芭芭奈格（Raphaëlle Barbanègre）｜譯者：吳愉萱

Meacham calls Lewis “as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first-century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the Republic itself in the eighteenth century