For centuries, children have been disappearing. Ten year old Abigail wonders about the poem that has to do with a creepy, ancient tree. Granted, birds or squirrels are never seen near the tree, the tree never grows leaves, and nothing grows around the base of the tree, but are the protruding knobs really the heads of children that the tree has devoured? Abigail has never fit in at school and if she proves how brave she is by tying a ribbon on the tree, surely she'll gain respect from her classmates. But what Abigail doesn't know is that the tree has been waiting for HER.
I'm a librarian at a Jr/Sr High School in Indiana. My oldest daughter is a (starving) artist and my youngest just graduated from college. I live in a rural area with two horses, a dog, and a cat. I've been a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators since 2007. I have a YA fantasy ebook titled, Curse of the Golden Fly (also a trailer) and a Middle Grade fantasy ebook titled, The Hobble, Knobble, Gobble Tree. I have an interview with Smashwords and it can be found on: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi... But my ebooks are also on Amazon, Sony, Barnes and Noble, Diesel, and the iTunes book store.
Loved this book. One or two unexpected things happened, like when Vand was red-eyed, or the spider was going to feed Abigail to his/her young, not giving her to Ioxin(?). I was dissapointed when I couldn't find "The Edge of Nowhere." It seems annoying (and ironic) to have to go almost all the way out, then have to go right back to the start.