Author(s): Colin Thompson & Amy Lissiet (illus)

Children's Books

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 want to be somewhere else with someone else, eating something else and wearing something fantastic no one else can afford. Rats live for quite a short time and for most of that time they are very, very happy