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A grandfather clock in a swamp decides that seconds are a social construct. It befriends a tardy snail and a very confused will-o'-the-wisp. The text is written in circular prose; you read the first sentence, then the last, then the middle.

Suddenly, "Please pass the popcorn" becomes "lease ass the ocorn." The child must infer meaning from the absence. It is a brilliant, frustrating, hilarious lesson in phonetics and loss. tonkato unusual childrens books top