The Gift of Joy and Laughter is an optimistic, funny and full of love children's poetry book. The author Valentina Iliand is a 1st place winner of the modern Russian poetry award "Liubliu Otchiznu Ya" (2005) and has published in a number of newspapers and magazines in Lithuania and Russia. Her poems were also included in 'The Almanac of modern Russian poetry and prose 2005-2008'. In this book the author uses expressions made by children, her own and others, as well as her wonderful imagination.