Il venditore di felicità

Since they say happiness is the most important thing, when it goes on sale—in small jars, large ones, and family packs—there’s immediately a line: a grandma, a boy, a mother with many kids, all eager to buy happiness. But when the happiness vendor leaves, he drops a small jar… and the truth is revealed. Happiness can’t be sold or bought. So where can it be found? What did people used to say? In the little things?

Themes: pursuit of happiness, truth of things, poetry.

Awards

• Marco Somà won the Toppi Prize for best work in competition with the panel “The Seller of Happiness” – original link
• Soligatto Prize 2019 – Children’s literature award assigned by a jury of children, section ‘readers aged 7 to 9’
• Marco Somà won the second prize of the 15th Cento Children’s Literature Prize Illustrator Competition with The Seller of Happiness – original link