Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury...
On a day like any other, Kino, a subsistence pearl diver, emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, and as "perfect as the moon.” Such a pearl could change his families life, and it does.
When "Doodle" is born weak and sickly, his brother is disapointed. When with his brother's help he starts to walk at the age of five, they make plans for him to learn to run, climb vines, swim, and even fight, but things...
"Once 'pon a time," said Uncle Remus to the little boy-"But when was once upon a time?" the child interrupted to ask. The old man smiled. "I speck 'twuz one time er two times, er maybe a time an' a half. You know when Johnny Ashcake 'gun ter bake?...