The One Thing & Anothers

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>*A Red Ribbon Winner in the 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards*</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Rio and Huxley live on the Planet of Stuff where everyone loves stuff. Everyone except them. They are bored of living in their castle and swimming in their 17 swimming pools. To amuse themselves they pull pranks on their great-great grandchildren but when caught their punishment is getting locked in a tower of stuff. Trying to escape the boredom they hitch a ride on a UFO where they find the planet Earthia. It is so beautiful and so perfect but to them so boring. When Huxley decides to pull one of his naughtiest pranks yet what happens next is something they never would have expected.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The One Thing & Anothers</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is part of the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Young Philosophers Series</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> dedicated to listening to and valuing children as natural philosophers. It asks the questions where DID humans come from? Why are we so contradictory in our nature? Why do we want to collect stuff? What does it mean to belong and can we feel like we belong in multiple places across time and space? Why are we destroying the planet we live on? Young bright minds are called on to write the next chapter in the story.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>HOW TO USE THIS BOOK</strong></p><ol><li data-list=ordered><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Read the story of Huxley and Rio.</span></li><li data-list=ordered><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Think about what you think the story is about? Keep all your thoughts in a journal.</span></li><li data-list=ordered><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Turn to Chapter 7 which lists all the contradictions of the creatures that inhabit the 'planet of Earthia' and think about some 'contradictions' that live inside you and the people you know. How many contradictions can you think of? Keep thinking and thinking as if you were on a never-ending </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>WONDER WHEEL</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> in a theme park.</span></li><li data-list=ordered><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Turn to Chapter 10 at the end of the book and write the ending of the story. What happens to who and why? Are there any more obstacles in their way and what are they? How do they overcome the obstacles? And then what happens after the end of that?</span></li></ol><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Look out for the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Everything-World Blankish Journal</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> an accompanying storytelling and philosophical activity book where Clare-Rose Trevelyan goes deeper into exploring the questions of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>CONTRADICTION</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> woven through this story.</span></p>