A Smile to Go Around {Picture Book Feature: Because Amelia Smiled}

Need a smile today?

I read this cheery picture book last week about a chain of inspirations and smiles. It starts with Amelia smiling as she runs through the streets with her parents.

They pass by Mrs. Higgins, who catches the smile and starts to bake cookies for her grandson, Lionel, in Mexico.

Inspired, Lionel sings a song about cookies to his class, and that inspires one of them to become a teacher as well ...

and then another to ...

and so on ...

Amelia's smile travels to England, Israel, Paris...