In a strange, otherworldly place of round mossy hills and wide blue skies, the penguinish Gordimer Byrd spends his days in a thimble factory pecking dimples into thimbles, though he is sure he was meant for bigger things. One day he finds a pebble—a magic pebble, it must be!—and he is thrilled that his destiny has found him at last. But after much rolling, and blowing, and bouncing the pebble, he realizes it's a plain pebble, and he has been very foolish. Dispirited, he begins to clean out all the unmagical things he's collected over the years and build a reminder not to be so foolish—but that's when he really does make something magical. Robert Weinstock's book for readers 4 to 7 is a delightfully quirky debut.
