The Platypus

This story is about a young chicken who was not that happy with the way he looked. We could say that he had low self-esteem. He envied the beautiful qualities of other animals and asked Mother Nature to make him look like them. After experiencing what it was like to be like them, he realized he would have been better off staying the way he was before all the changes.

Alanna wrote this book for a school project in grade four. Today, Alanna is a mother of two young children, and she is as creative as ever. Her wish and prayer is that everyone who reads this book be inspired to value his or her own talent as a young one and to know that if they want, they can also publish their own stories.

-- Alanna Faris