Do you remember the story of the Ugly Duckling?
This story has a warm place in my heart. As a premature, underweight baby, my worried parents were comforted by my grandfather -- who promised them I'd someday grow into a swan!
Getting inspired from the heart of the Ugly Duckling story, I wanted to make that feeling into my own telling.
I wanted to write something a bit different, but still giving the feelings of growing into one's own.
What could be more different than a Stripeless Zebra?
Zee was born in the story book titled
Zee the Stripeless Zebra
Unlike the Ugly Duckling, Zee changes on the inside, not the outside.
At first, being so different is painful to Zee, and he wants nothing more than to get stripes!
It's even his wish as Zee blows out his birthday candles.
Then something wonderful happens, as friends and family tell Zee --
"Every Zebra is different, you're just more different."
Dare to be Different!
Co-Written and Illustrated by Robin Smith and Tana Bevan
Zee the Stripeless Zebra
will publish in early August 2014
on Amazon.com
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publishing your own book on CreateSpace:
Contact this author Robin Smith
smithr8020@gmail.com
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