The Anything Box by Zenna Henderson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have loved these stories since the first time I encountered one of them in an anthology when I was about 10. Eventually, I found and bought all Zenna Henderson's books. She didn't write many.
Her stories touch on wonder and sometimes horror. They usually centre around children and how they can do things becaue they don't know they're impossible.
The child with an invisible box that shows heart's delight. The boy who can make his truck just follow him but as he grows and is taught what is impossible, he loses the abilty and forgets. The teacher who shows her children how to experience disaster and difficulty and move on, but most of them only learn part of the lesson, the fish that can cure jealousy, the pretend sound-eater that becomes very real, the child trying to prevent a disaster who fails because an adult doesn't believe.

If you haven't read anything by Zenna Henderson. Remedy it immediately, and rediscover the wondr of a child, and the sadness.

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Volume 6 Due Christmas

 

Crystu. The heroine of the Guardians of Reyth books

Tam, the hero of the Guardians of Reyth books

 

Trerin. Actually the most important character in the story. 

 

 Wow. 3 years since the last time.
Since then, my sister has developed cancer, been told she was terminal, then offered a brand new treatment, and has now been in remission for 9 months.
And, of course, we have a pandemic.
And Brexit.

Those fingertips of light have been few and hard to see.

But here's a pretty pattern created in a really cool paint program called Flame Painter

Taster from book 2.

Contest entry ready

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