From the celebrated picture-book team of M. T. Anderson and Kevin
Hawkes comes a wistful, wondrous ode to the natural pleasures of peace
and solitude.
The boy lives alone at the End of the World, hunting treasure with old
maps, finding fossils, whistling tunes, playing ball by the drop. It's a
peaceful, contemplative life, and the boy is content. Until, that is, a
self-styled Professional Visionary arrives and puts up a sign:
CONSTANTINE SHIMMER'S GALVANO-MAGICAL END OF THE WORLD TOURS. FUN ALL
THE TIME! Soon men with machines come to pave a clearing for the inn and
theme park, and the touring children seem nice, but still. . . . M. T.
Anderson's lyric homage to simplicity and self-reliance is brought to
life in arresting detail by the masterful artwork of Kevin Hawkes,
creating a fantastical yet evocative world sure to resonate with
everyone who enters it.