This book is bothersome.

First, I only picked it to read today because, as I was touching other books on the same shelf, this book's stupid round shape caused it to roll off the shelf and onto the floor. A book in hand is worth two on a shelf, I suppose. But this is not the first time this book has jumped shelf. Hell, I've probably spent more time picking it up off the floor than reading it over the last two decades. Grr.

Second, I'm not sure it's strictly accurate enough to be educational.

Let's start with the redundancy in the title of "happy" and "glad." Is the toddling audience ready to grasp the nuance that glad is a bit more likely to be applied to happiness one gets from another's good fortune? We won't get to find out though, because "glad" does not actually appear inside the book. False advertising!

"Silly" does make the cut, and I'm not sure that's even an emotion. Isn't it more a behavior that comes out of being happy?

"Sleepy" is another not-emotion that gets plugged in. That's just a biological state of being, like hunger, that can influence or induce emotions.

Finally, the design of the spinning wheel is not ideal. It can be hard to spin at times or hit frustrating tight spots. And you have to hold it just so, or you can inadvertently pinch the wheel inside the back cover and keep it from spinning altogether.

Needs more work. Come back when you have a new edition.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
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