Age range 6 to 9
'In Gurez, there are no storybooks. Only lots and lots of snow!'
When the Uncle From Far Away shows her class a storybook with beautiful pictures, little Amiya is wonderstruck. They must build a library, the uncle tells them. But how? Amiya knows that Deidi, her grandmother, has many stories in her old-old eyes. And so, over steaming cups of pink noon chai and buttery kulchas, Deidi begins...and a book is born!
