Akron Public Library

When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, Jack and Annie travel back to feudal Japan to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.

Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.

A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness....

Lists a wide variety of items, from red socks to peekaboo, that can make one happy.

The little rabbit knows how it feels to be happy and how to share this feeling with others. Thinking questions at the back of the book help children review and connect to what they have read.

A young bear thinks about happy times it has spent with its parents.

A charming fable that evokes a life lesson we would all do well to learn: living and loving are time well spent. Once, there was a boy named Charlie. He had a pretty nice life ... but it wasn't perfect. So one day he packed up all his time-all his round, squishy years and square, mushy months, down to every itsy-bitsy second-in his suitcase and locked it up safe, said goodbye to his parents, and set off to find something better to spend his time...

Katie Woo loves her life and lists the many reasons she is so happy.

Relates things that make people feel good, from rubbing noses to wearing brand new pajamas.

Viewing a trip to Costa Rica as an opportunity to revitalize her marriage, Addy Lipton is disturbed when her husband puts his back out on the morning of their departure, and decides that it is time for her to make some big changes and choices in her life.