Books with title Harper The Hopper

Horace is a grasshopper who thinks he's the best hopper in the world, until a stranger shows up who says HE'S the best hopper.Note: In 1953 a newly married young couple (my parents) decided to produce a series of illustrated children's books. My father, a part-time artist, and my mother, who was all of 16 years old at the time, ultimately created four books. When my father passed away in 2000, I found these long-forgotten manuscripts in a box of his belongings. One book was lost, never to be found. I decided to take the three remaining books and self-publish them through Kindle, a technological miracle that my parents could never have imagined in 1953. Rather than use technology to clean up these 60+ year old pages, I chose to scan them exactly as they are, showing old paper clip marks where the text was attached and other marks of over half a century of being stored away. The story was by my mother, the art handpainted in watercolors by my father. I've added the text using modern means and made slight revisions to the text, mainly for grammatical reasons, but other than that they are as they were in July of 1953.

Harry the Happy Hopper is a free-hearted, fun-loving frog whose constant happiness has the other animals in his town perplexed. Determined to discover the secret of Harry’s happiness, Mayor Mason the Mongoose, commissions Zayden the Zebra to follow Harry and report his secret back to the town animals. Zayden clumsily follows Harry through page after page of playful alliteration before he finally learns Harry’s secret, but it is not what anyone expected. Will the town animals choose to embrace Harry’s recipe for happiness? Harry the Happy Hopper will charm readers and listeners of every age as he teaches a valuable lesson about happiness.

This is a story of a young Grass-Hopper that feels the itch of exploration. Horace would like to see the world and explore what is around the next corner, but he needs help and seeks the wisdom of his friends and the wisest creature in the forest. While on his quest Horace is confronted by trials and pitfalls, through a bit of luck Horace prevails. When exploring outside your comfort zone you must be careful. You need to rely on your friends and to hold them true.