Avoid Disappointment and Future Regret

by Matthew Swanson, Robbi Behr (Illustrator)

The definitive book on how to find happiness makes liberal use of information graphics and smiley faces while featuring Emily Dickinson, two werewolves, and a quiz that helps you discover whether or not you’re happy (spoiler alert: you aren’t). Guaranteed to improve your life or double your misery.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Matthew Swanson (and his wife Robbi Behr) are author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Cookie Chronicles series, The Real McCoys trilogy, and the picture books Sunrise Summer, Babies Ruin Everything, and Everywhere, Wonder. When not advocating for local schools, giving talks on creative entrepreneurship, or running a summer salmon fishing operation on the Alaskan tundra, we live in an old barn on the Eastern Shore of Maryland—making books and raising our four kids.

Matthew and Robbi will spend the 2022-2023 school year crisscrossing the United States in a school bus/tiny home with our four kids, visiting underserved elementary schools in all 50 states (plus DC), and giving away 25,000 free hardcover books to students and teachers from low-income communities. To learn more about the Busload of Books tour, go to: www.busloadofbooks.com.