Word after Word after Word by Patricia MacLachlan

Word after Word after Word by Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Tegan Books (Harper Collins), 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-027971-4
PS: A visiting author teaches five friends about the power of words and writing.
I usually like to quote a few lines from a book to give the flavor of it, or tell just enough to leave the reader hanging (and wanting to read the book), or if something just hits me as particularly memorable. I would have to just about quote this entire book. The author's choice of words is so rich, each word so meaningful, that the book has to be savored slowly so as to take it all in. A simple enough story: a visiting author comes to talk with a class of fourth graders, encouraging each to tell his own story in his own words. For example: "out of our writer mouths...Will come clouds...Rising to the sky...Dropping rain words below...And when the clouds leave...The sun will shine down word...After word...After word...Planting our stories in the earth." And at the end of the book: one child says,"If this were a book, it wouldn't have an ending". "Maybe", said another,"the ending is that it doesn't end." "It goes on."
If words had actual weight (instead of just symbolic weight), this little 125-page book would weigh 1000 pounds.