What a beautiful book! We all need a happy shop! Collecting happy moments to share with others. I loved this story, so meaningful and lovely! Sometimes you need cheering up, other times you need to see or feel something to appreciate what you already have. This book has got me thinking and I love the cartoons in this book! Flora and Frida are lovely! Frida takes time to get used to but she has her reasons, such a thought provoking story and shows you to appreciate the good and bad times as and when they happen!

Would recommend this book and hope to find more from the author in the future as they are new to me.

This a quaint story, a comic worth spending time with. A way to find a happy feeling. The story told: Who wouldn’t want to go into a shop and be able to buy a happy feeling moment? But emotions are really much more complex, what’s seems happy for one person brings other feelings to someone else. Thank you to Oni Press and NetGalley for the comic ARC. The views expressed are all mine, freely given.

Thank you NetGalley for gifting me a copy of this book.

This was a nice, unique and easy to read graphic novel.

I would LOVE to have a place like this where you can get happy feelings when you feel down. It would really be helpful. The main character was lovely and the two sisters too at the end.

I would 100% recommend.

This short graphic novel is a true delight. The illustrations are simple but nicely colored. I love the central idea of the story that there’s a shop selling bottled up feelings of happiness for buyers to enjoy. Darcy is a young girl who is adjusting to life in a new home with her hardworking single mother. When she happens upon the Happy Shop, she is intrigued and ultimately finds employment with the sister owners. Overall, this book was unique, enjoyable, and thought-provoking. I would have loved more depth and development of the side characters and their back stories. I’m very grateful to NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advance digital copy of this book.

The Happy Shop is a middle grade graphic novel that centers around a young girl who has just moved to a new country with her mother, and is having a hard time adjusting. When she gets drawn to a happy thoughts shop and accidentally breaks a few jars of happy thoughts, she takes up a part time job at the shop to help pay back the damage she caused. Through her work in the shop, she starts to find what she needs to adjust to this new life.

This story was super cute and sweet. I liked the artwork, but found it a bit simplistic (mostly solid colors, not much shading), which I think a younger audience may be drawn to. The things I liked about this graphic novel were the pacing and the well thought out story. Everything made sense and there was a solid conclusion. I also thought the idea of a happy thoughts shop was unique and creative, and I enjoyed learning about how that magic worked.

Something I didn't love was that the character Frida was SO MEAN! How do you get so mean working in a happiness shop, and also, why is she so mad at the girl for breaking her jars when they only broke because she startled the girl! I also wish the girl had had a chance to make some friends her own age in the story.

I think this story would be enjoyed by middle grade readers. It is a great story for someone who is having a hard time to adjust to something new in their life. I personally give this a 4.5/5 but will round up to 5!

Thank you to netgalley and Oni Press for providing an arc in exchange for an honest review!