Don't Smile

Being a mother and a teacher, I sometimes find myself having to do a lot of work just to get my children and students to smile. This is a story about a little boy who does not want to smile for pictures. He likes the straight line of his mouth because it looks like the trunk of a tree, the body of a butterfly, and the stick of a lollipop. He starts to get defeated when the reader points out that the branches of the trees, the wings of a butterfly, and the candy of the lollipop are all curve...