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Are you looking for an illustrated book you can read to your children that teaches them something valuable while engaging your own mind as well? The best shared reading times happen when both parent and child enjoy a book and benefit from what it teaches. A Good Life was written to be read to children while provoking meaningful thought in adults.This inspirational story follows a young orphan boy who leaves his home town and difficult background to find a good life. As he journeys, he meets people of various professions (farmer, composer, teacher, soldier, artist, etc.) . Each character gives the boy a different metaphor for thinking about life. For example, a farmer tells the boy that life is a garden:"Life is a garden . . . Its soil can sprout forth both good and bad plants with equal opportunity for both to thrive.