01549nam a2200181 a 4500001001400000003000700014005001700021008004100038020001800079040000800097100001500105245006000120260003700180300002500217505084500242520026201087650001801349vtls000062433KUKTEM20260423093616.0120619t2011    nyu    g      001 1 eng d  a9780143119500  aUMP1 aLoory, Ben10aStories for nighttime and some for the day /cBen Loory  aNew York :bPenguin Books,c2011  aix, 210 p. ;c20 cm.0 aThe book -- The swimming pool -- The tunnel -- The crown -- The man who went to China -- The octopus -- The path -- The hunter's head -- The duck -- The well -- The shadow -- The TV and Winston Churchill -- Death and the fruits of the tree -- UFO: a love story -- The hat -- The magic pig   -- Bigfoot -- The shield -- The Martian -- The little girl and the balloon -- The poet -- The rope and the sea -- The knife act -- The fish in the teapot -- The girl in the storm -- The afterlife is what you leave behind -- The tree -- The sea monster -- The man and the moose -- The end of it all -- On the way down: a story for Ray Bradbury -- The house on the cliff and the sea -- The snake in the throat -- The graveyard -- The ferris wheel -- Photographs -- The walk that replaced understanding -- The woman and the basement -- Hadley -- The TV  a"This collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables and tales is populated by people--and monsters and aliens and animals and inanimate objects-- motivated by and grappling with the fears and desires that unite us all."--P. [2] of cover 0aShort stories