Three friends, Tiger, Giraffe and Zebra were all hanging out in the hot, dry and crusty dessert near a jungle. 

Tiger, although self-centred and very confident with himself, was also nice and caring. Zebra was very mean and did not care about others feelings. He was also very competitive. Giraffe was so shy and the nicest out of the three!

All the friends were talking about how they looked and felt so plain. They all wanted patterns on their fur.  After talking through it, they realised they all wanted stripes! 

The only problem was there was not enough stripes for everyone. 

So, first place would be awarded stripes, second place would get zig-zags and last place would unfortunately get spots!

“I feel so plain it would be great if we could have a pattern on our fur. I would love stripes “