This cute story would be appropriate for a child on his or her first birthday. It would allow parents to express how they waited with happy anticipation for the child's birth and celebrated each first year milestone. The illustrations are okay. The color scheme is muted and has a soft memory-like quality. My first issue with this title is that the child it's intended for isn't really going to appreciate it in my opinion. I also thought it was strange that the child would "fly away" someday. Of course, an adult understands the phrase, but perhaps it would have been better if the illustration showed a young adult going off to college instead of two small children looking like they have leapt from a building and are flying through the air.

I fell in love with this cover! This book is perfect for a child's birthday! It explains how they came to be your child in a soft and gentle way. HAPPY BIRTHDAY would be an amazing baby shower gift. The mother could read this to her child every year on their birthday. This book could become tradition.

Very short book of 17 pages. The illustrations are amazing!

I think the message is beautiful and the illustrations are sweet, warm, and soft. However, the delivery of the text and the illustrations sometimes felt a little off to me--for example, on the second spread, the text reads "every year a special day comes around" and there's a picture of a dog scratching his ear with his hind leg...and while it's a cute dog, what does that have to do with anything? I don't think things like that will bother children as they are read this book, but adults reading it to them might be a little put off.

So sweet! I would give it as a gift to my own child on their birthday! Illustrations are wonderful!

Who doesn't love to be celebrated during his/her special birth day? Happy Birthday by Mamoru Suzuki published by Museyon, is born for this purpose. It's a hymn to life a beautiful, tender, cute, children' book to present to your kid but also to a grown up child :-) thinking better, because these ones are the memories substantially of every mom of this world remembering the special day she experienced the joy of maternity and the arrival of her baby. Her baby: so frail, precious, felt, tender, wanted.
A special date, a special day to be remembered.

The book remarks with great poetry and thanks to beautiful, cute, sweet illustrations the arrival of the baby in this world through tender, poetic drawings and... words.

A mom plenty of expectations always thinking that this kid is not exactly her kid, but a child of this world and that he/she will have his/her own destiny wherever he/she will want to go, and with whomever will want to be surrounded by, but the most important, surely she will always love him/her, support him/her wishing him/her all the best for this special day and the other ones to come.


Beautiful. Highly recommended.

I thank NetGalley for this ebook.

I received this arc from Netgalley for an honest review.]
The mother tells the story of how the child grew in the womb and then began to grow. Beautiful illustrations help tell the story of a boy growing to his first birthday.

This is such a lovely book! Short and simple, it takes a look back at the memories of waiting for baby to come along and the special things that happen afterwards. As mentioned in the book's blurb, the story captures that all-encompassing love that parents feel for their children, and as such is a wonderfully heartfelt book to share and read with a little one on or near their birthday.

4.5★
Gorgeous little book to celebrate a child’s first birthday! Mother tells the story of how the child grew in her tummy, then hurried to come out, and was fed and loved and hit all the milestones.

“On this day many years ago, I was wondering when you were going to come out of my tummy. I had waited a long time.”

We see baby open its eyes, learn to kick and roll and crawl.

[My Goodreads review includes and illustration showing “And you began to crawl.”]

This is followed by more great illustrations showing “You stood! You walked! And then you ran, ran, ran!”

I’m sure none of my family were running on their first birthday, but I’ll allow for artistic licence (and variation in development, of course) and say that overall, this is a lovely production!

Thanks to NetGalley and Museyon Inc for the preview copy from which I've pinched a picture. Due for publication in October 2017.

This is a genuinely heart warming story that explores a child's first year from it's birth to celebrating on the day - it is a lovely idea but wouldn't work for my daughter as sadly I had to have an emergency caesarean section and couldn't nurse as she was poorly and in the baby unit at hospital - but for other mums would be nice to tell their children about their journey.

This heartwarming tale explores birthdays from a child's beginning out of the womb towards more independence.

Happy Birthday! by Mamoru Suzuki is a love letter of sorts from a mother to their child where the mother recounts from the anticipation of her child's birth through to the child's ability to walk, then run. It then looks forward to when the child branches out on their own and assures the child that wherever they are their mother will always love them.

This book is intended as a birthday gift and children will love to hear about how loved they are. I expect children this book is read to who take everything literally will be eagerly waiting for the time when they gain the ability to fly as the looking forward part shows two children flying in the sky Peter Pan style. The illustrations are cute and use soft warm colours except for the end of the book when the Darling children follow Peter Pan to Neverland.

I received an ARC from NetGalley (thank you very much to NetGalley and Museyon Inc. for the opportunity) in exchange for honest feedback.

This is a children's illustration book which is very good to give as a gift or in lieu as a card. The illustrations are beautiful and the prose that accompanies it, although short, basically shows how precious the child was from the time of birth, infancy and the present birthday. A great gift for the toddler ages and above.