Presents story excerpts from more than twenty children's books (including Huckleberry Finn, Little Women, and Treasure Island) accompanied by original, easy-to-follow recipes, from breakfast items (Doctor Dolittle do-very-little sausages) and sandwiches (Treasure Island marooned cheese toast), to main meals (Robin Hood Sherwood Forest chicken) and desserts (The Fir Tree shortbread stars).

"A superbly original collection of short stories with an esoteric bias. Each story explores in different situations, often humorous, a paradoxical edge of experience, when the inner and outer life is about to transform; at any stage in life. These stories, light-hearted and profound, were rough hewn by the well known mind-body-spirit author Alan Jacobs, and turned into literary gems by Jane Adams, an artist, poet and author. They express this fertile...