"We had a war with a poopy diaper. Poop. Diaper. C’mon."
Grown-ups like it when E’yannie Gomez writes about bullying in school, and how to overcome it, but she prefers straight comedy.
The 11-year-old is more interested in laughs than life lessons.
Like the time she and her sister fought over her baby brother’s poopy diaper.
“Because it’s hilarious,” says E’yannie, a fourth-grader at Samoset Elementary School in Bradenton. “We had a war with a poopy diaper. Poop. Diaper. C’mon.”
In the course of a single story, she smiles, grimaces and rolls her eyes. A natural performer. That kind of personality comes through in her 42-page paperback, “The Crazy World of Alexa,” which came out in December.
When E’yannie began writing stories in a journal, her mom, Shantia Benson, suggested she start with things that happened in real life. They worked together on those stories. They produced enough copy for a book and found a Tampa company to help them publish it
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