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When Comes What Darkly Thieves
When Comes What Darkly Thieves: A fairy tale, to be sure. One that you’ll wake from feeling as if someone spent all night weaving nets in which to catch your dream animals. And yet, they and your dreams escape nevertheless, because the meanings of dreams are easily frightened. Perhaps it is precisely those things that we don’t quite understand, of which we only have the faintest inkling, that continue to live and exist inside us, that persist, that transmute their precious metals into our dreams, into our dream creatures, into ourselves: For we too are dream creatures, at once dreamed shaped, at once shaping the dream. more »
Let us free ourselves of the word “appropriate,” and of the idea of the age-appropriate book. For if we are to be honest with ourselves about the wonderfully curious creatures children are, must we also not admit that they are wonderfully different from each other as well? Yes, wonderfully different, even if they are all equally capable in allowing what they dream to find its way into the world: All children need not the same stories. And yet it is important that each child, and moreover, ourselves as adults, find our stories, our myths, our images, that like an open hand, like an invitation to voyage, ask us to be engaged with them. Is that not perhaps the most important thing we learn from books?
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The book is now available in Apple’s iBookstore as an enhanced ePub.
An iPad app featuring original music by Palafox (Cortney Tidwell, William Tyler, C. Ryan Norris, Scott Martin) and narration by Tia Shearer will be available this winter.
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Hardcover: 28 pages, sewn binding, dust jacket
ISBN: 978-0-9838267-0-5
Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.25 inches
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The Author
A writer and illustrator, who once was asked by his mother to put tube socks on his feet that, at least it struck him, did not resemble the shape of feet at all. That night he dreamed of busty, rusty robots and birds wearing the wrong wings, and he learned what it was like to be eaten by an angel. To give a brief history of disorientation, to find something where instead there should be something else, Jonah in a jellyfish, a sentence searching for itself inside itself, or Ben Rubin, himself, giving you a wink with his winking eye, as if to convey to you some secret knowledge about how we misbehave? How do we misbehave? With smiles on our faces of course!
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