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In order to answer her mother's question about what would make her smile, a girl first asks various people, animals, and even the moon what makes them happy.

Happiness can result from exciting changes like getting a new pet, or from smaller events like playing a favorite game or reading a cherished book. Readers will encounter many such joyful situations in this guidebook focused on self-awareness and perception, both key components of social and emotional learning. Through accessible language and photographs, children will learn to recognize when and why they feel happy and how to regulate this healthy...

The philosophy of taking a leap of faith to do what you love and let come what may. The idea that if you are leading a life of quiet desperation, leave it behind and go about doing what makes you happy.

Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and into his father's firm. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way-except that he is homosexual. Written during 1913 and 1914, immediately after Howards End, and not published until 1971, Maurice was...

After reading that there will be a dance at the zoo, Little Penguin tries to learn some steps from the other animals but neither Monkey's samba, Flamingo's ballet, nor the hippos' line dance seems quite right for him.

Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine. The problem is that our brains' evolved capacity for avoiding and defending against threats has a slew of by-products, all tightly woven into our day-to-day thinking and behavior, that ensnare us while making our threat-anticipating brains "happy."