When I was a little girl my favorite children's book that my mother would always bring home from the library for me was The Puddle Pail by Elisa Kleven. It was a cute little book which depicted two dragon like creatures who had various collections. The elder collected many average things and individual would collect, such as things you would find on a beach or bottle caps, but the younger collected puddles.
By the simple act of scooping up water into a pail, somehow this was preserving the reflection of each puddle, and I always thought this to be the most artistic thing in the world to me. The fact that just by collecting a trace of liquid you are preserving a piece of something that means more just seems too remarkable for a children's story.
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