A small ant asks a bird how long a long string can be. Many varied uses are explored as the bird unwinds the string in answer until the ant decides that a “string’s just as long/as I need it to be.” The white string leads readers across textured pastel pages until we see the ant on its own small string tree swing.
Yoshi loves to build anything and everything, and when he finds a fan depicting a boat with a golden sail chasing the moon, he sets out to construct the boat. Yoshi continues to build everything the magic fan shows him, until the villagers become angry with him for building foolish things. What they don’t realize, however, is that Yoshi has built something that will save the village with a different kind of magic. Readers will find themselves poring over the stunning, detailed illustrations set on fan-like flaps in the center of each page.
