After searching mountains, forests, oceans, and deserts to find his smile, Augustus the tiger finds it when he looks in a puddle, and realizes that happiness is everywhere around him.
One half of the book presents such happy animals as a parading peacock and a giddy goat, while the other half shows such sad creatures as a pouting porcupine and a crying crocodile.
A young boy's fascination with everything he sees around him causes him to be late and upsets his parents, until they come to realize his special gift.
Through conversations, stories, and meditations, the Dalai Lama of Tibet discusses how people can become happier and explains the methods he used to rid his life of anxiety, insecurity, anger, and discouragement.
A boy gets rid of everything that might make him sad and is sad anyway until he realizes that those things are also what makes him happy, and one emotion is impossible without the other.
