Hyena has lost his laugh a Fun animal adventure. Who will help him find it? This short beautifully illustrated book is lots of fun for young children.
The Lost Laugh includes lots of repetition and simple language, making it a great book for early readers, older brothers and sisters learning to read will enjoy reading to their younger siblings. The beautiful yet simple illustrations provide the perfect inspiration for an art project for kindergarteners and homeschoolers.
This book is another awesome creative commons picture book brought to us by BookDash, a South African non-profit whose aim, just like our own, is to ensure every child has enough books.
Text and Images from The Lost Laugh – Fun animal adventure
Spotty the Hyena is very sad.
He has lost his laugh.
“Please help me find my laugh, Giraffe.”
“I can’t hear a laugh up here.”
“Please help me find my laugh, Hippo.”
“I can’t hear a laugh down here.”
“Please help me find my laugh, Warthog.”
“I can’t hear a laugh in here.”
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One of our patrons, Sandi, of Storytime Sandi has made an awesome video for reading along with this book, to read along with The Lost Laugh, check the video out here:
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Your prose has a rhythm to it that keeps me engaged even through the more technical sections. That’s a craft not everyone has.
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This book is really good .Children do read with fun. Its so colorful too.
i love this and my son was actually happy to read it!
So great, I know that phase, my toddlers were so picky, I was so wrapped when I gound books they enjoyed!
This is a cartoon but i want to see a funny cartoon that will make me laugh
yes ….. amazing read!
Yes I enjoyed reading this free book to my infant.
I have loved this book since I was 2
this was an awesome book
I really liked this book and other stories in this page. They are really helpful for my sister and brother! Thank you!
great ones my son loves all
It is simple and appropriate for early readers.
You could replace the water hog with a tortoise as to eliminate seeing a butthole but other than that it was a good story.
This story is perfect for toddlers and pre-K.
It’s so good goood!!!!
very nice book
We like this book very much for helping baba to find Laugh again.now baba can Laugh loudly.so we Laugh all together ha ha ha
i love line in the book
Yes, I like this book because it was so fun!! My favorite part was when Spotty goes to monkey and monkey tickled him with the feather and he laughed so much.
This book was an easy read and my toddler said the words, “again again”.She likes it so mission accomplished.
This book available in korean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI-ulY0XtMc
Great story. Great visuals.
It was a great lesson. Is good for learn because the lenguage is just for children or beginners.
Lovely message
I like this book it was a very intersting stoy
I wishe you all the best
Not sure what effect they were trying aesthetically with what looked like red blood splatters across the pages. Overall, not too bad.
It was funny how spotty the heyena said he lost he’s laugh.
This is very simple and warm story, follow the story, my daughter laughed in the end.
Love this book! The repetition is great for young language learners, and the book is fun to read.
Great! Just what I need to share with the kiddos
I liked the book because it contains simple language that can be easily explained to toddlers. Toddlers learn the names of other animals found in the woods.
Lovely lesson for confidence!
Yes I enjoyed it. Because, right now I’m learning English and the book’s are going to help me.