"We will speak to the people," said God. "We will ask them a few simple questions. Then you shall hear. In their sleep they will say what they truly know." It is 2am and God and his Son look down from a grassy hilltop on the spire and roofs of a village. Summoned in their sleep, the inhabitants one by one describe truly an animal they know well. "This is a very beautiful book: pages of English moonlight, a modern Aesop in a village where God and his Son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple quetions ... the pomes are pure enchantment.
