Excerpt from The Kingdom of Why: Being the Strange Story of Lucile's Adventures With the Sapient Sage, the Foolish Idea, the Striped Jester, and Other Folk, Creatures, Kings, Beasts, Bogies, Wizards and Witches Who Dwell in That Wonderful LandOn the evening in which the strange things began to happen to Lucile, she was sitting in the library watching her Daddy read from a book with a name containing as many long words as Lucile was years old, which was nine. It was beginning to get dark. Ln cile wondered why. In fact, that was what Lucile was always doing - wondering why the things in this big, round, green world are like they are, and why they are not like the things in once-upon-a-time fairy books. So she began to bother her father with questions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.