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The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley XX
Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 309 Ratings and 65 Reviews

Book Description
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 and wearing s... More
Book Information
PublisherKane Miller Books
BindingHardcover (2 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages32
ISBN-101933605502
ISBN-13978-1933605500
Publication Date09/30/2007
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About Amy Lissiat (Author, Illustrator) : Amy Lissiat was born in France in 1920 and has worked as an artist's model, poet's muse and an international imagination consultant. In 1955, on her way to Tristan da Cunha by hot air balloon, she mad... more
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About Colin Thompson (Author, Illustrator) : I was born in Ealing, London on October 18th 1942 - so now I am 62!! Until I was eleven my name wasn't Colin Thompson it was Colin Willment. Willment was my father's name and my mother changed it to T... more
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8/6/2008 Leila Rasheed said: I agree this book is a stunner, but not really for children! I put it in our bookseller recommends bay with a shelftalker saying better than lots of self help books for getting your life in perspective and it just walked off the shelf. Highly Recommended.
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7/26/2007 Sondra LaBrie said:
I immediately fell in love with this book (and Riley) when I first read it. I am pleased to learn that others have as well. It's a laugh-out-loud picture book that uses Photoshop techniques along with quirky illustrations to explore the idea of how materialistic our society is by comparing the li... more

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