His other titles, including PEOPLE, The Fox Went Out On a Chilly Evening, and Bored - Nothing To Do!, are as much a delight to look at as they are to read.įind Oh, Were They Ever Happy! at your local library. Spier’s books, beautifully painted with a mix of watercolor, pen, and ink reveal humorous details within already-playful scenes. Standing back from the house at day’s end, they (and all of their neighbors) admire their rainbow of work. On goes the green, the orange, the purple, the blue, the yellow and the red. Lugging buckets of paint and a ladder out from the garage, they paint and paint and paint. They take it upon themselves to help their mom, who has long desired a new coat of paint on the home.

New York’s noisy, but my mask can zero in on muffled sounds, the kind a tied up kidnapped victim might make. It’s funny cause the art on the boxes for these figures is from the screenshot too. Whether splashing color on walls is a universal desire of children or not, Peter Spier captures inadvertent paint-laden mischief in Oh! Were They Ever Happy!, a tale about the Noonan children, who find themselves home alone one morning, as their parents run errands and the babysitter fails to show. It’s the diamond select one with a customized head. The Noonan children take it upon themselves to help paint the house.Īs a kid, I begged my mom to paint my room neon, or at least purple, bright blue, or possibly-deep magenta? These propositions were met with buckets of white paint, or in one case, a pink so pale it might as well have been white.

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