Tales from Zayhir: Volume One (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798177657523)

I believe the best questions come from the people nobody thinks to ask.

Wee Wee Kazoo is seven. She has a purple kazoo, a wall the goats live behind, and no patience at all for being told a thing can't be done. One evening she blows the kazoo, the sand opens, and she walks into Tomorrow: a city beyond time, where scholars have written four volumes about a railing none of them ever slid down.

Waiting there is Z: half jinn, half dragon, made when two fires were put together that were never supposed to meet. Kings bow to him. He bows back, exactly as low. And when a little girl asks him whether dragons can swim in sand, or whether sunlight can dance, he doesn't explain. He says, "Let's find out."

Nine illustrated chapters follow her first season in Tomorrow: the first flight on the dragon Veyrion's back, the thousand-year railing, Dragon Cookies, a hall full of arguing men who fall silent because a child fell asleep against the one they were arguing with, and the lady next door who has been right about everything for eleven years and finally asks the one question nobody else did.

Tales from Zayhir is for the reader who still wants to know why, at seven or at seventy. From B. Knight, creator of Wee Wee Kazoo. Volume One of the series.