If one needs help with self-esteem or possibly learning difficulties, this picture book will provide oodles for both concerns. ‘Smart’ can mean you are good at storytelling or at making rhymes. Perhaps you are good at choosing what you want to wear, helping shy people, drawing things and folding aeroplanes, being kind ‘when there’s crying’. Having a good imagination is smart, as is dancing, or feeling frightened but willing to try something new. Perhaps you know lots about bugs or are good at daydreaming or happy doing crafty things. All sorts of people make up our world, and each one is different. Being smart is not just about being good at tests or spelling or reading: ‘Every hour of everyday, we’re smart in our own special way. And nobody will ever do the very same smart things as you.’ There are lots of wonderful ways of being smart, and this story, with it glowing pictures of people and witches and dinosaurs and monsters and spacemen and ghosts and brilliant flowers is the perfect (subtle) way of helping children know their strengths and to accept themselves as they are.