{"product_id":"a-year-tightens-its-belt-randy-b-tudor-9798667901174","title":"A Year Tightens Its Belt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Sooner or later the plateau of summer tilts and everything that isn't nailed down or holding on for dear life rolls off. This may come as a complete surprise if you haven't been around for long.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese, the first lines of the last story, are your welcome and your warning. Forty-one rhymes, poems and stories will lead you - if you simply follow their word-crumb trail - through the empty quarter of the year, the districts of Fall, Halloween and Winter. Spend a late afternoon in the library watching the leaves fall outside. Be exposed to windy cliffs and homeless skies. Travel through innocent, if wistful, miniature fairytales of early autumn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut be warned: once you enter the territory of \u003cem\u003eThe Scarecrow Hunter, \u003c\/em\u003e the companionable crows of summer become foreign and remote. Beyond the village of Halloween, the trail goes blind, the stories become complex, hard-edged, severe. If you need to be convinced that things have taken a turn for the worse, the longer stories - such as \u003cem\u003eSplintered Bone Road\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Silent Howling of the Wind-Swept Moon\u003c\/em\u003e - should do the trick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Year Tightens Its Belt\u003c\/em\u003e is a companion book to \u003cem\u003eSharing Imaginary Things\u003c\/em\u003e which is assigned to the districts of Spring, Summer, Childhood, and Dreams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Randy B. Tudor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798667901174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d","brand":"Randy B. Tudor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48851852394751,"sku":"9798667901174","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-year-tightens-its-belt-randy-b-tudor-9798667901174","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}