Fraught Friendship: My Friends Make Me Happy! by Jan Thomas

Sheep greets her three friends--Donkey, Bear, and Duck--with a challenge. She even offers them a hint!

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT MAKES ME HAPPY?

IT STARTS WITH THE LETTER F.

Donkey guesses that what makes Sheep happy are FISH!

Looking very pleased with himself, Bear suggests that FANS (the breeze-making kind) make her happy.

Duck is stumped. Finally Duck comes up with something:

TURNIPS?

Donkey tells Duck to get serious. Bear points out that turnips doesn't even start with an F!

All three of Sheep's friends begin to bicker, each insisting on their first choice. Sheep is fast approaching her wit's end with her argumentive friends. She stops the squabbling with what seems a straightforward answer.

MY FRIENDS MAKE ME HAPPY!

But Duck raises a new question: What is the next best thing that makes her happy? Sheep's three friends go back to arguing their original answers! It's bedlam! Sheep sees that her friends also make her...

CRAZY!

Can't live with them and can't live without them is Sheep's dilemma, in Jan Thomas' My Friends Make Me Happy! (The Giggle Gang) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).  The author and illustrator of the Giggle Gang series has another gigglebait easy reader for book beginners in this latest title in the series. With comic characters portrayed in black-line cartoon illustrations with simple and repetitive text, made easy by the illustrations, these books are a jolly way to practice reading skills and learn a little bit about friendship in the process. Says Publishers Weekly, "Readers old and young will recognize the truth that friendship can be both wonderful and exhausting!"

Other Giggle Gang laugh-fest easy readers by Jan Thomas include What Is Chasing Duck? (The Giggle Gang), The Doghouse (The Giggle Gang),  and her magnum opus My Toothbrush Is Missing (The Giggle Gang).