Book of the Week: “WHALES ON STILTS!”
The story begins with unlikely heroine Lily Gefelty’s chilling Career Day discovery: her dad works for a mad scientist who wants to rule the world! Dad’s in Sales and Marketing, and as far as he’s concerned, his workplace is “a mid-sized company devoted to expanding cetacean pedestrian opportunities.” That’s right. “We make stilts for whales. See? Nothing suspicious.” But Dad’s boss Larry wears a damp grain sack over his head with two holes cut out for his eyes, and has blue, rubbery hands. Then Lily hears Larry recommend that Dad not take the family to visit Lily’s grandmother in Decentville next month, because that’s where Larry will begin his campaign to take over the world!
I can hardly wait to find out what crazy adventures unfold!!! Can you?
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
- Litany Against Fear (from Dune by Frank Herbert, 1965)
