Gadzoo is a sweet-quirky story. Two sisters —seven and nine— solving a puzzle with laughter and love, in a brief hiccup of time.
Ariel's madcap mishap, turns her world upside down. She's baffled, bewildered—something is lost... and now something needs to be found.
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"Mama opened the front door.
Taryn turned on the porch light.
They looked out and wondered, Where can she be?
Ariel wasn’t in sight.
Taryn turned on the porch light.
They looked out and wondered, Where can she be?
Ariel wasn’t in sight.
The last pale ember of sun’s afterglow
slowly failed in the sky.
Worry clawed Taryn with sharp little thoughts
and Taryn tried not to cry.
slowly failed in the sky.
Worry clawed Taryn with sharp little thoughts
and Taryn tried not to cry.
She tried to be brave and tried not to worry —
tried her best to be strong. She tried and tried but
the worries inside were yelling her, Something is wrong!
tried her best to be strong. She tried and tried but
the worries inside were yelling her, Something is wrong!
And though she knew the day couldn’t stay,
it scared her to see how the light slipped away.
it scared her to see how the light slipped away.
Here we are on the edge of night and Ariel isn’t in sight. . ."
a very small • spoiler alert!
In the end all is set right with a breeze through the trees and twinkling starlight, with flitters of fireflies, fall leaves in flight, and a big yellow moon shining bright.
Pages Count
Gadzoo is organized in eight short chapters with sixteen illustrations occurring predominantly in the first 22 of 76 pages in total. The average word count is 61 words per page.
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