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". Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson called Smiling Bears "An inspiring trip into the minds and reality of bears."