title: Smiling Bears
text: # Smiling Bears
  
  Smiling Bears: A Zookeeper Explores the Behavior and Emotional Life of Bears is a 2009 book by Canadian writer Else Poulsen, first published by Greystone Books. In the book, the author chronicles her insights gleaned as a zookeeper responsible for rehabilitating "bears in crisis". Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson called Smiling Bears "An inspiring trip into the minds and reality of bears."
  
  ## Awards and honours
  
  Smiling Bears received shortlist recognition for the 2010 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".
  
  