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3''The Luckiest One of All'' is a 1982 children's storybook by Creator/BillPeet.
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5A boy, feeling as though he has nothing to do, expresses his wish to be a bird so he can fly. From there, a string of creatures from a frog to a mountain express the woes and wishes of their respective lives.
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7!!This book contains examples of the following tropes:
8* AnAesop: Everyone's life has its pluses and minuses.
9* ComeToGawk: The lion in a zoo resents the crowd of people that gathers to gawk at him if he roars too loud or long. He wishes he could burrow out of sight like a gopher.
10* {{Flight}}: A bored boy muses about what fun it must be to be a bird, because of how they can fly so easily.
11* GrassIsGreener: Each of the beings or things mentioned in the story have something they don't like about their lives, whether an irritation or a hazard, and wish they could live the life of someone or something else.

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