A Mile in My Flip-Flops

A Mile in My Flip-FlopsBy: Melody Carlson Thirty something Gretchen Hanover is stuck. Seeking solace from a broken heart, she traded her wedding plans for home improvement shows and ice creambut she knows she cant live on Ben and Jerrys forever. She also knows that her enthusiastic Lab puppy has outgrown her tiny apartment. The perfect patch for Gretchens dilapidated plans? Shell become a first time house flipper. As ideas go, its daring and genius. Shell take out a short

beauty and strangeness of life from one of the great literary voices of our time

has been kidnapped by an evil giant and placed in the Lost Tower of Lotubmen

She thought starting her life over in San Diego would mean writing at the beach and rendezvousing with sun-kissed surfer gods

baking and helping out at the festival

and self-rule beats steady and strong

inspired by the works of legendary children's book author-illustrator Leo Lionni

And to face life again

Take a closer look at landscapes

Wente unpacks the discrepancies between his personal identity and how non-Indigenous people view him

“Readers will find themselves quickly immersed in this imaginative world

Then step this way because this hilarious picture book by award-winning comic genius

each with his or her own origami puppet