Magic Wanda's Travel Emporium: Tales of Love, Hate and Things in Between - Softcover

Winner of the 2003 Storyteller of the Year competition, Searle-White has performed and conducted successful storytelling workshops throughout the United States. This collection brings his off-the-wall characters and their fantastic adventures to the page. This lively collection of 15 stories proves that anything is possible. Searle-White's colorful characters navigate the world of human relationships, using imagination and humor to illuminate themes of love, commitment, fear, and faith. His character inhabit leaky boats, magical islands, and far-off planets and his stories combine jokes for adults with a silliness kids will love.Magic Wanda's Travel Emporium is the perfect book for reading out loud. Searle-White's commitment to rhyme, alliteration and wordplay-all the things that make him a great storyteller-are employed in this collection.

Stories include:

• * Two pompous pirates squaring off against each other in the sailing race of the century
• * A round rubber ball that struggles to tell a secret to her friend without them both bouncing away
• * A clarinet whose love for a saxophone is almost doomed by their vast cultural differences