“Our society wants nothing more than to target our children with dangerous rhetoric. So that our children know when they’re being told lies and how to stand up against it with confidence, my book, Happy No Snakes Day, is about standing up for the truth. Speaking the truth. Even when, despite being afraid, you know, the consequences and the fear of what might happen, when you call out the hypocrisy and the lies and the deception and the manipulation that you see, doing the right thing is always the right thing. There’s no compromise between right and wrong. And that is what my book, Happy No Snakes Day, is about.” — Riley Gaines