β Scribed by Michael Garland
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
When Zack meets his second-grade teacher, Miss Smith, he can tell right away that her class will be different. But he has no idea just how different it will be! Miss Smith has a knack for telling tales. When she reads from her incredible book, the stories literally spring to life! Then, one day, Miss Smith is late for school. The principal takes over, and things get out of handβ¦
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
In a world dazzled by the latest gadgets and mesmerized by Internet videos, the humble book seems like the most ordinary thing that could be. And perhaps it isβuntil you learn to look closer . . . and closer . . . and closer . . . and youβre suddenly in a world that only you can imagine. With soft,
In Catching Thoughts, a girl is plagued by an unwanted thought. No matter what she does--ignore it, yell at it, cry about it--the thought won't go away. Frustrated and discouraged, she finally looks that bad thought in the face and says, "Hello." At last, she is able to notice other more beautiful,
Michael Rosenβs Sad Book chronicles Michael's grief at the death of his son Eddie from meningitis at the age of 19. A moving combination of sincerity and simplicity, it acknowledges that sadness is not always avoidable or reasonable, and perfects the art of making complicated feelings plain.
Drawn from the writings of Chuang Tzu, the fourth-century B.C. thinker sometimes called the Butterfly Philosopher, this delicate prose poem tells of "a boy who dreamed he was a butterfly and, as a butterfly, he always dreamed he was a boy." Though the boy endures the laughter of others as he tries