The Happy Day

by Scholastic Inc.

With plenty of flaps to open and playful pictures of punch-out, kids will have lots of fun with this oversized book. They can also find out what the magic cloud brings, look for the Tubby Toast,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590983334
• ISBN13: 9780590983334
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.3" x 11.5"
• Age Range: 1 to 5 years

Customer Reviews

Tinky Winky's Magic Guillotine

I bought this book for my oldest daughter when she was one, a die-hard teletubby-head at the time, and about to leave on a international trip without me. Even though it is a big unwieldy book, my daughter loved and convinced her grandmother to carry it around in her purse. You punch out the cardboard figures of Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Poe. Then, each page has little slots to stick the figures in. One page has La La going for a walk. One page has them eating dinner, and has a slot for you to slip the figures down a slide. On the last page you tuck each one into bed for night-night. Really simple, really sweet, and held my daughter's attention a long time. My oldest daughter outgrew this book years ago but now my youngest daughter has discovered it. I feel a little bad for her though, getting it second hand. Yet, not bad enough to buy a new one. But each of the cutout figures is now frayed around the edges, the cardboard intermittently splitting into layers, continually exposing undisturbed cardboard strata. And, saddest of all, Tinky-Winky has long been decapitated. Once in a while the head reappears and gets taped back on the body, but then it falls off soon thereafter. This doesn't seem to traumatize the girls, I'm not sure why, I find it disturbing. But the girls can not be dissuaded. I'm recommending this book because, regardless of whether or not I understand why, it seems to be very absorbing for kids. Once they get into it they play with it relentlessly. Some reviewers have suggested having the cutouts laminated. That's a good idea. I didn't think of that. And likely wouldn't have motivated to do it even if I had. Is it a simple thing to get things laminated? Sounds to me like something involving multiple steps.

Get creative and make this book even more fun

This book is great. You MUST laminate the teletubbies though. To make it more fun, use your own cardboard to make some tubby toast (I made colored toast to match each tubby), and make an extra teletubby cutout and paste a photo of your child on it. Really adds to the fun.

Amazing entertainment value

I was skeptical about whether this book would go over well with my kids (18 months and 3) and I surely didn't need to worry! they LOVE it. They play with it many times a day and never seem to tire of it - esp. putting the Teletubbies to bed. I [would suggest] laminating the Teletubbies - that is a must since they are flimsy cardboard and will dissolve if put in the mouth (which of course is the first thing my daughter did). My 3 year old likes to play with them even without the book and puts them in his trucks and walks them around etc. I am amazed how much they enjoy this book and how it never seems to bore them.

The Happy Day (aka Many, Many Happy Day's)

This book has been a favorite for both our children around 18 months. We are on our third copy. This could have been avoided had we learned from our first and second mistake of not laminating the tubbie punch outs. The poor things get all dogeared, torn, etc. Hopefully third times a charm and they will hold up with this extra support. (Or maybe for the weary parent its a good thing when they finally wear out, because as we all know "again, again" is a motto of these little guys.)

Do I Have To Read This Again?

While I, as the mom, might find this book (and all Teletubbie products) excruciatingly boring and banal, my kids LOVE this book. Taking the Teletubbie creatures through their Happy Day provides (seemingly) endless amusement for both my 1 1/2-year-old daughter and 3 1/2-year-old son. The page with the slide is the most popular; I have to believe there is some hand/eye/spacial skill to be learned here. Putting the Teletubbies to bed is also a favorite activity and an opportunity to do some color matching.While I cringe every time (10 times a day) my kids bring me this book, and I often feel compelled to inflict pain on Tim Jacobus, we just ordered a replacement copy as our original is dilapidated and LaLa is missing (don't ask!).