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The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley

by Colin Thompson · 2006

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Human beings live for quite a long time and for a lot of that time we are not happy. We want to be taller, shorter, fatter, thinner, older and younger. We want our straight hair to be curly, our curly hair to be straight and our brown eyes to be blue. We hate our parents, children, teachers, students and everybody. We want to be somewhere else, with someone else, eating something else, wearing something fantastic no one else can afford, and we want to splash them as we drive by in our big red car. Rats live for quite a short time and for most of that time they are very, very happy...

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Themes
animalsanimalsMore like thisLess of thishappinesshappinessMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
Mood
inspirationalinspirationalMore like thisLess of this
Subject
self-helpself-helpMore like thisLess of this
Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

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