Happiness Is A Watermelon On Your Head - Softcover

This is a book of craziness that children will love, especially if it's followed by some watermelon, or any silliness related fun. All the characters and objects in the story are used in a very exaggerated way to emphasise the importance and joy of being free to be silly, and how happy to can make us. The pictures in the story are just crazy... And the watermelons why the watermelons? Who cares? They're beautiful, colourful and very messy, and the splats they create will put a smile on many little faces who'll squeak with delight at all the madness spilling out of this book.

School Librarian

With colourful illustrations and a funny storyline, this tale is great at capturing how nosy neighbours really can be. Full of creative imagination this is an inspiring story to be loved by all, particularly those who have a love for watermelons!

Booktrust

This is a brilliantly funny picture book to share with any toddler. Parent and child are sure to laugh through it as you meet three rather miserable ladies who live in a completely mad world but by the end of the story they've realised that happiness is a much better way to live!

LoveReading

Dreis combines opulent colour, comical poses, and a novel composition to create this luscious picture book. Hahn's rhymes are fresh, sprinkled with rich vocabulary. This feast for the eyes and ears should be on everyone's menu.

School Library Journal, USA

Happiness is a Watermelon on your Head is a delightfully surreal picture book with a rhyming text provided by Daniel Hahn to complement the lush, fantastical world that Stella Dreis creates so well with her wonderful illustrations. This really seems like one of those perfect collaborations between writer and illustrator that children will adore...The story has a real element of the Lewis Carroll/Alice in Wonderland fantasy about it that makes it delightful to read and share. It is also very funny, both in the words the author chooses, and the way the illustrator chooses to depict the story. The vocabulary and images are rich pickings if you are trying to stimulate children's creativity and engage in their love of off the wall material.

Making Them Readers