Have you ever wished that the world was a squishy? If everything was cuddly and soft, you'd never get bruises, scrapes, or cuts. And if people, too, lacked sharp edges, you could easily bend them to your will.

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Award-winning author, Katherine Davis-Gibbon, transports readers to a magical realm, where kids become all-powerful and toy with the people and places around them. Though at first this seems marvelous fun, it soon becomes clear that not being challenged is its own kind of problem—perhaps the most hopeless conundrum of all.

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Tag along as a child lives out the ultimate fantasy, only to watch it comically unravel; but ultimately learns a timely lesson about the value of resilience—how it can be a superpower that readies us to meet each moment, no matter how tough or lousy it is. With humor, insight, and imagination, If the World Was a Squishy lets kids in on a game-changing secret: that not getting what we want can end up being a priceless gift.