When one day, in the castle above the clouds, the little wizard Wobbletooth tries to cast a spell, something terrible happens to his wand: it disappears! The only place he can get a new one from is Rainbow Island. His friends Princess Pustilla, Sir Turnip and the dragon Flutteric are, of course, all keen to accompany him on his wand-finding mission. And the four friends have a lot of adventures along the way, before the little wizard finally gets to hold a magic wand in his hand again – like when Sir Turnip’s beloved helmet is suddenly stolen from his head!
There’s a great deal of commotion in the castle above the clouds: King Catnap has lost his crown! The little wizard Wobbletooth wants to help, and so tries to cast a spell to get King Catnap’s crown back for him. But instead, he conjures up a chamber pot on the king’s head! The little wizard’s spells usually go wrong, because his first wobbly tooth hasn’t fallen out yet. And so the little wizard and his best friend Princess Pustilla set off in search of the king’s crown, with the help of the tiny knight Sir Turnip and the dragon Flutteric, who first has to overcome his fear of flying! Together, the four friends embark on an exciting, and successful adventure!
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.
Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.
At first, Lola does not want her wobbly tooth to ever fall out, but when she learns about the tooth fairy, she wiggles and wobbles her tooth until out it pops! Finally it is time to go to bed—but the tooth has disappeared! Now how will Lola convince the tooth fairy that she really did lose her tooth? Big brother Charlie has just the answer—if Lola has dreams so lovely that she smiles while she sleeps, the tooth fairy will be able to see for herself!
