Zaza the bear is an actress at her family's theater. She loves getting into character and overly dramatizing her roles. One day, her mother gets a call from Hollywood and says that they want her to audition for a TV show! Zaza is beyond excited imagining her life as a famous TV star. After getting the role, she soon realizes that TV acting is not for her. She misses the theater and her friends, but doesn't want to let her family down. When the director tells her that Hollywood life isn't everyone's cut of tea, she finally decides to tell her family she wants to go home. They reassure her that they are proud of her for trying something new, even if it didn't work out like she had thought. Zaza is happy to return home, now with even more love for theater. This book displays the classic saying, "the grass isn't always greener on the other side." Sometimes things that you imagine being amazing turn out to not make you as happy as you thought it would. ( )