The Little Book of Wonders

This story concerns four curiously gifted children from different parts of the world, coming together in a kingdom ruled by a peanut brittle addicted monarch who wishes to destroy their uniqueness in his quest for absolute power.Four children, each with a special natural gift, grow up in complete isolation from one another, in distant parts of the world. Izzerdory dances, and when she does, everyone and everything dances with her. Doughfan, a boy born with ears the size of dinner platters, hears all the sounds of the world and beyond. His ears have remarkable talents and raise seminal questions of existence and humanity. Zephyie, from a high mountain village, reads the past, present, and future in the clouds. Tenzing, a young very good bad monk, finds knowledge in the currents of rivers and oceans. These youngsters are fated to sail across malevolent seas, hike high mountain passes, experience imprisonment, and float rivers winding through the very center of the earth to confront a greedy, peanut brittle addicted monarch who has a bad attitude, and bad teeth.