Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2021 and long listed for the Kate Greenaway Are you looking for happiness? Sometimes it can feel really far away, and sometimes you might have so much you can’t help but share. You can try to chase it, control it or capture it, but even if it seems like it’s gone for a while, you’ll know it’s never far away… This is the second of Eva Eland’s picture books that helps little ones deal with big emotions, following Sadness. Start on your journey with happiness… who knows where it could take you?

Eva Eland is an award-winning author and illustrator with an MA with distinction in children’s book illustration from the Cambridge School of Art. She has also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her first picture book, When Sadness Comes to Call, won the Klaus Flugge Prize and the V\\u0026A Award. Her second book, Where Happiness Begins, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Her books have also been longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award and shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards. Eva grew up in Delft, Netherlands, and now lives in Amsterdam with her husband and two children.