A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader The Field Guide The Ass and the Grasshoppers

The Ass and the Grasshoppers

Tersa Sphinx (Xylophanes tersa)

and tragic martyrdom

Introduction 1

The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé

A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader The Field Guide The Ass and the GrasshoppersA Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of the Year"An embarrassment of riches." The New York TimesIn these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture makers writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character. On the page facing each letter, an illustration by a celebrated illustrator or