From A Very Small SomethingSomewhere past the wrinkled maps and underanother sun where favourite earrings find new earsand missing marbles run the hillsides madetheir marvelous shapes for a town called CovingtonAnd a great pink factory as long as the breezeweighed truckfuls and truckfuls of bubblegumOlivia Bezzlebee lives by the sea in a fantastic town with the worlds biggest bubblegum factory where its citizens blow bubbles all day But Olivia cant blow a single one and feels as if everyone looks down on her Leaving Covington to find a place where she might belong she learns the true meanings of family and homeA Very Small Something beautifully illustrated by Alexander GriggsBurr is a story to which all childrenand any tunedin parentwill be able to relate Blowing bubbles may indeed be a very small something but when you are a small child and its the thing you most want to do a bubble can mean the whole worldDavid Hickey is one of the leading young poets in Canada and the author of two collections including Open Air Bindery He has tested his childrens poems in schools across the country for the last seven years He is finishing a PhD at the University of Western in London OntarioAlexander GriggsBurr illustrated the Ontario Library Association Red Maplenominated Nieve in 2010 He lives and works in Stratford Ontario