Start wishing for a rainy day. This anthology is a guide, encyclopedia, and celebration to the Pacific Northwest and beyond! Learn how to sleep with a triceratops in your room, the dangers of vitamin D deficiency, the life of crabs from birth to death, and hear some advice to aspiring writers from author Tom Robbins.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “The lasted edition of the annual 826 Seattle anthology, featuring famous adult and not-yet-famous youth writers. We offer you both the best writing of our 826 Seattle students but great writing by Dave Eggers and Tom Robbins; a comic by David Lasky; artwork by Skylaar Amann, Sara Ewalt, and Justin Allan, poetry by Kathleen Flenniken, and Jared Leising; and short stories and essays by Chelsea Cain, William Dietrich, Nancy Rawles, Harold Taw, Langdon Cook, Shannon Bork and Lora Lee Misterly, Arthur Bradford, Peter Mountford, Peter Rock, Naseem Rakha, Jonathan Evison, and Davy Rothbart.”