"Happiness Is..." is a book and merchandise series based on the cartoon created by New York Times Bestselling authors. Lisa Swerling & Ralph Lazar, which features a series of single frame images of "What makes you happy?"
It was launched on Facebook while the couple were living in Sayulita, Mexico, in July 2013. As of December 2016, there were over 8,500 images in the collection, and the Facebook page had over 3.0 million followers.
Chronicle Books of San Francisco holds global rights to the first 8 titles published from 2014 to 2018.
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)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)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)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)