Status Updates From The Two-Thousand-Pound Gold...

"(T)he government's just like a great, terrible ball, and when it starts rolling it crushes half of what it rolls over and picks up the other half. And it gets bigger and bigger and more powerful, and somebody's got to stop it."

—Warren's mother, The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish, P. 57

Cover art by Ruth Sanderson, renowned for her many classic illustrated children's books. And it's been years since I read a Betsy Byars novel. I adore her personally illuminating work.