Book About:
This amazing title is about making friends. It depicts the beautiful, humane story of how people
tend to feel desperate when they are all alone. The illustrations are vividly drawn and full of
interesting details, which will help children’s creativity and imagination, at the same time.
It starts with a hungry boy, who wishes for a sandwich maker machine. He starts looking for it
and on the way, meets a girl with long, curly, dirty hair, who wishes for a machine to weave her
hair into a ponytail. They both encounter a sad little dog by the bus station, who is longing for
someone to adopt him. And the group of three, meet a tailless lizard, who wishes the machine
could help grow his tale.
Their journey is cut short when they find a white house in the middle of an empty road, with the beautiful lawn and
a tree and a swing. On the swing, sits a tired scientist. The boy asks about the
machine and the scientist, one by one, help them with their problems: a sandwich for the boy, a
comb for the girl, a house for the dog, and a tail for the lizard.
He then points out to his dream machine: a machine to move aw fromay the tiredness. The boy, the
girl, the dog and the lizard smile all together, and sa id:”maybe there is such a machine... we just
never have looked for it...”
Author About:
Ameneh Arbaboun is an Iranian well-known author.