Happiness is a Watermelon on Your Head

At the end of the village, behind a green door,

Lived happy Miss Jolly, with Melvin, her boar.

“What makes her so happy? We really must learn!”

Cried her neighbours, Miss Whimper, Miss Grouch and Miss Stern.

“It’s awful being miserable day after day.

Let’s find out her secret! There must be a way!”


One ridiculously joyful lady, cauliflower hats, fish bonnets, other assorted headgear, a few very large animals, a pet boar called Melvin and a whole lot of watermelons. Three miserable women discover that the key to happiness is very pink and very messy. A humorous picture book of rhyming nonsense verse, accompanied by spectacular and unusual illustrations. This is what might happen if Dr Seuss met some watermelons.