From A Very Small Something:
Somewhere past the wrinkled maps, and under
another sun, where favourite earrings find new ears
and missing marbles run, the hillsides made
their marvelous shapes for a town called Covington--
And a great pink factory as long as the breeze
weighed truckfuls and truckfuls of bubblegum.
Olivia Bezzlebee lives by the sea in a fantastic town with the world's
biggest bubblegum factory, where its citizens blow bubbles all day. But
Olivia can't blow a single one and feels as if everyone looks down on
her. Leaving Covington to find a place where she might belong, she
learns the true meanings of family and home.
A Very Small Something, beautifully illustrated by Alexander
Griggs-Burr, is a story to which all children--and any tuned-in
parent--will be able to relate. Blowing bubbles may indeed be a very
small something . . . but when you are a small child and it's the thing
you most want to do, a bubble can mean the whole world.
David Hickey is one of the leading young poets in Canada, and the
author of two collections, including Open Air Bindery . He has tested
his children's poems in schools across the country for the last seven
years. He is finishing a PhD at the University of Western in London,
Ontario.
Alexander Griggs-Burr illustrated the Ontario Library Association
Red Maple-nominated Nieve in 2010. He lives and works in Stratford,
Ontario.
