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authors.

Lisa Swerling Lisa Swerling (born 1972) is a South African/British artist and a New York Times Bestselling author. She is best known for her Glass Cathedrals dioramas. She is also known as co-creator of the illustrated characters Happiness Is, Harold's Planet, ...

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, which features a collection of single frame images of "What makes you happy?" It was launched on Facebook while the couple were living in

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, Mexico, in July 2013. As of July 2021, there were over 10,000 images in the collection, and the

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page had over 3.3 million followers.

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holds global book publishing rights to the first 8 titles published from 2014 to 2018.

Published works in the "Happiness Is...series

BOOK 1: HAPPINESS IS...500 Things to be Happy About * US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2014) * India: Penguin Books/Random House (2014) * Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2014) * Korea: Indigo (2014) * Japan: Bunkyosha Co (2015) * Germany: Fischer Verlag (2015) * Indonesia: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama (2015) * China: United Sky New Media (2015) * Argentina: Catapulta Editores (2015) * France: Editions 365 (2016) * Russia: Kariera Press (2016) * Hungary: HVG Könyvek (2016) * Vietnam: AZ Communication (2016) * Spanish-speaking world excl. Argentina: Plaza y Janes/Penguin Random House (2016) * Holland: ZNU (2017) * Bulgaria: Ciela Norma AD (2017) * Taiwan: Yuan-Liou Publishing (2017) * Turkey: Pegasus Publishing House (2017) * Slovakia: Albatros Media (2017) * Ukraine: Vivat Publishing (2018) * Saudi Arabia: Jarir (World Arabic rights) (2018) BOOK 2: FRIENDSHIP IS...500 Reasons to Appreciate Friends * US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2014) * Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2015) * China: United Sky New Media (2015) * Argentina: Catapulta Editores (2015) * Japan: Bunkyosha Co. Ltd. (2015) * Russia: Kariera Press (2016) * Germany: Fischer Verlag (2016) * Indonesia: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama (2016) * Vietnam: AZ Communication (2016) * Spanish-speaking world excl. Argentina: Plaza y Janes/Penguin Random House (2016) * Holland: ZNU (2017) * Turkey: Pegasus Publishing House (2017) * Saudi Arabia: Jarir (World Arabic rights) (2018) BOOK 3: HAPPINESS IS...500 ways to be in the moment * US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2016) * Vietnam: AZ Communication (2016) * Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2017) * Vietnam: AZ Communication (2017) * Hungary: HVG Könyvek (2018) * Saudi Arabia: Jarir (World Arabic rights) (2018) * Taiwan: Yuan-Liou Publishing (2018) BOOK 4: HAPPINESS IS...500 ways to show I love you * US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2016) * Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2017) * Vietnam: AZ Communication (2017) * China: United Sky New Media (2017) * Bulgaria: Ciela Norma AD (2018) * Holland: ZNU (2018) * Saudi Arabia: Jarir (World Arabic rights) (2018) * Taiwan: Yuan-Liou Publishing (2018) * Spain: Penguin Random House (2019) * Hungary: HVG Könyvek (2020) BOOK 5: HAPPINESS IS...200 things I love about mom * US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2017) * Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2017) BOOK 6: HAPPINESS IS...200 things I love about dad * US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2017) * Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2018) * Holland: ZNU (2020) BOOK 7: HAPPINESS IS...200 ways to be creative * US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2017) BOOK 8: HAPPINESS IS...200 celebrations of sisterhood * US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2018) * Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2018)

References

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