ROLOC by author Jaki Fey

A mythical journey, a little girl hero, and valiant deeds fill this book.

Reading fairy tales to children fosters emotional resilience and give examples of navigating complex emotions; they spark imagination. These stories provide a safe space to explore greed, vanity, fear, good/evil, not judging someone by the way they look, true success, and more. Relevance: Fairy tales can improve a child's cognitive flexibility, vocabulary, help them understand chains of circumstances. Fairy tales help strengthen parent-child bonds: reading together shares nurturing time and opens conversations.

What's This Book About?

Behind a great gray wall, in a time and place far from what we believe to be true, a little gray girl lived in a small gray village. The little gray girl's name was Roloc. During this era, every day was gray. In fact, every year was a gray year and the truth is, no one remembered a time when it was different. That is, until Roloc leaned out of her window and breathed the clean, warm morning. "This is too fine a day for mundane work," she proclaimed. "A day like today calls for a quest. I shall find the long-lost treasure and return it to my village." She grabbed an old treasure mad, filled her rucksack full of ripe gray apples, and left the great-walled village through its one gray gate...

Roloc's Gray Village

Into the Grey Forest - scary

Hmmm, What's That

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.

George Saunders