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The Setting & Synopsis

Synopsis

Snailsworth, a brown garden snail, has never strayed far from the safety of her sheltered home in the ivy. In an effort to reach what looks like a tasty bite of food hanging high above the ground (and despite the warnings and threats of a few other characters), she sets off on an all-night journey, the value of which far transcends her disappointment and fear. At its end, she finds that her inadvertent adventure has been well worth the risk.

The Setting: Snailsworth's Home

The story takes place on a dark, moonless evening in summer. The crickets scritch-scritch secret messages to each other through the darkness. Fireflies blink here and there across the sky. 

A stone path leads through ivy to the old garden gate, and a large rhododendron bush stretches up the fence; flowers that grow in the garden beyond the fence are barely visible through gaps in the fence. The gate latch is unhooked. Has someone just entered the garden? Or is someone going to be coming out? Perhaps the door, barely ajar, beckons you to enter. You see, the setting is really a character, too!

From spread 1: The garden path and Snailsworth's home in the ivy.

Click here to view the scene that inspired the author.

Just a tiny piece of nighttime
by the garden gate...

...and a tiny piece of sunrise,
same scene.

   
 
 

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