Cynthia Rylant

Every Living Thing is a collection of twelve short stories by Cynthia Rylant, published by Bradbury Press in 1985 with decorations by S. D. Schindler. The stories all feature redemptive relationships between humans and other animals, most often showing how a stray animal comes into the life of a person just when it is …

Once upon a time,deep in the dark, green forest there was an exquisite house made of cake and sugar--a house made to lure lost, hungry children. But the witch whose delicious houselured Hansel and his sister, Gretel had forgotten two things about lost children: they can be very cleverand very brave.