All That Happiness Is: Some Words on What Matters -- Adam Gopnik, Hardcover Performing Arts FABULOUS AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR TEAM: Laurel Snyder

FABULOUS AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR TEAM: Laurel Snyder is the author of the Geisel Award-winning Charlie & Mouse early chapter book series

A Schneider Family Book Award winner

This book also includes fun facts about the Dark objects seen in the films of Harry Potter

courtrooms

where he spent most of his adult life

All That Happiness Is: Some Words on What Matters -- Adam Gopnik, Hardcover Performing Arts FABULOUS AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR TEAM: Laurel SnyderOur society is obsessed with achievement. Young people are pushed toward the next test or the "best" grammar school, high school, or college they can get into. Adults push themselves toward the highest paying, most prestigious jobs, seeking promotions and public recognition. As Adam Gopnik points out, the result is not so much a rat race as a rat maze, with no way out. Except one: to choose accomplishment over achievement. Achievement, Gopnik argues,