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One day a rocket ship piloted by a strange-looking adult named Gleesome Goodday crashes on the beach. His business card claims he is a “Dream.ComeTrueMaker and joybringer,” and he promises to make life a hundred times more fun with sun-activated flying powder and magic-coated skin so that no one ever has to bathe again. Goodday even nails the sun in the sky and creates a giant wolf to chase away the clouds so it can be playtime all the time. In exchange for these wonderful things, Goodday asks only for a little bit of the children’s youth—but what is youth compared to a lot more fun? The children are so enamored with their new games that they forget all the simple activities they used to love.
During Goodday’s great flying competition, Hulda and Brimir fly too high to the sun and soar to the other side of planet, where they discover it is dark all the time and the children are sickly and pale. Hulda and Brimir know that without their help, the pale children will die, but first they need to get back to their island and convince their friends that Gleesome Goodday is not all that he seems.
A fantastical adventure, beautifully told, unfolds in a deceptively simple tale. The Story of the Blue Planet will delight and challenge readers of all ages.
- Andri Snaer Magnason - Author
- Aslaug Jonsdottir - Illustrator
- Julian Meldon D'Arcy - Translator
Kindle Book
- Release date: November 20, 2012
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781609804299
- Release date: November 20, 2012
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781609804299
- File size: 6692 KB
- Release date: November 20, 2012
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Lexile® Measure:750
Text Difficulty:3-4