Category: Books
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The Three Dogs
[I was recently reminded of this story, which completely captured my imagination as a kid. I could never find it anywhere after reading it once, and hunted for it for years. Now, by the magic of the internet, I present it to you courtesy of The Green Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, via sacred-texts.com.] The…
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Please do this.
Go to Brothers K on Amazon. Click the cover to “Look Inside.” Search for “a strange physical exhaustion.” Click on the result (should be page 648). Read the last paragraph on that page and the other page & a half through the end of the chapter. This book, and this passage in particular, has transformed…
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Cowardly Clyde, by Bill Peet
I recently purchased an old copy of Cowardly Clyde, by Bill Peet, under a threadbare pretense of wanting it for our kid’s bookshelf. Ha. Totally a lie. It’s all for me. Bill Peet was one of my biggest sources of inspiration growing up. You’ve seen his work if you’ve watched Disney’s Sword in the Stone…