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    The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley (Hardback) By (author) Colin Thompson, Illustrated by Amy Lissiat

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    Short Description for The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of RileyHuman beings live for quite a long time and for a lot of that time are not happy. Rats live for quite a short time and for most of that time they are very, very happy. This picture book--an Australian Picture Book of the Year--presents life lessons with gentle humor and satire. Full color.
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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...