M.H. Clark has teamed up with Seattle illustrator Joanna Price to create one of the year s most delightful and inspiring gift books. This bright, beautifully illustrated book reminds us that the little things that make life worth living are everywhere and all around us. Homemade cookies. A cup of tea with a friend. Crisp clean sheets. Knowing you ve done your best. A phone call from someone you love. Start reading and you ll want to start your own list of What makes you smile?
What makes me smile? Less than a third of this book. Brimming with white, middle class privilege, Western normativity, and neurotypical assumptions, it’s full of “simple pleasures” that destroy the earth and/or are unhealthy, hurt people economically enslaved, and activities that require economic, social, and racial privilege. This book does not make me smile.