B LAST FROM THE NORTH B LAST FROM THE NORTH by DAVID ZELTSER illustrations by JAN GERARDI T CA ROLR HODA BOOK S M I N N EA POLIS
For Aurora Sage and Naomi Never ever give up on making your world a better place And in loving memory of Renato Dulbecco D Z
1 HEROES DON’T GET SCARED LUG yelled a screechy voice outside our family cave Lug come see this It was another freezing dawn the time when old Crazy Crag usually had his big ideas Last week it had been moving pictures on cave walls The week before something about an ice eye for seeing far away As Crag ran around our snow-covered village’s central clearing shouting about his latest discovery I yawned and snuggled deeper into my macrauchenia blanket Whatever it was it could 1
