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The Mountain's First Day at School cover

The Mountain's First Day at School

An ancient mountain wants to attend the woodland night school but cannot fit through the door. An adult fox teacher discovers that changing a lesson's shape can be more interesting than making a new pupil smaller.

Children's book
The Tailor Who Hemmed the Distance cover

The Tailor Who Hemmed the Distance

A tailor discovers she can shorten the distance between people by taking up their hems. Bringing a family together begins pulling an entire seaside town away from its shore.

Magical realism
The Streetlights Are Learning Our Names cover

The Streetlights Are Learning Our Names

A night-shift caretaker hears streetlights greeting people the city's new map has forgotten. Helping one elderly neighbor find home leads her to the names her own family stopped saying aloud.

Magical realism