Smiling Bears

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Smiling Bears:
A Zookeeper Explores the Behavior and Emotional Life of Bears
File:Smiling Bears book cover.jpg
First edition cover of Canadian release
Author Else Poulsen
Country Canada
Subject Animal cognition
Genre non-fiction, book[1]
Publisher Greystone Books
Publication date
5 May 2009
Media type Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages 272 pp.
ISBN 9781553653875

Smiling Bears: A Zookeeper Explores the Behavior and Emotional Life of Bears is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Else Poulsen, first published in May 2009 by Greystone Books. In the book, the author chronicles her insights gleaned as a zookeeper responsible for rehabilitating "bears in crisis".[2] Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson called Smiling Bears "An inspiring trip into the minds and reality of bears."[3]

Awards and honours

Smiling Bears received shortlist recognition for the 2010 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".[4]

See also

References

  1. Goodreads, Smiling Bears, Book review, Retrieved 23 November 2012
  2. Bear Smart Society, Smiling Bears, Book review, Retrieved 23 November 2012
  3. Greystone Books, Smiling Bears, Retrieved 23 November 2012
  4. Faculty of Arts, 13 September 2010, Shortlist announced for the 2010 Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 23 November 2012

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