Confound yourself with this Compendium featuring stories from all places and all of time. Hear tales of space invaders, cheese-rocks, mysterious mittens, volcanoes, soulmates, and a Spanish gorilla-robot. All that's in just the first half!

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the foreword by Christine Sneed: “This tidy but mighty little book that you're peering down at right now might not look anything like a giraffe's long ladder of a neck, or a swirly rainbow lollipop, or a glow-in-the-dark soccer ball, but it has something in common with all these remarkable things: it's perfect!”