Kingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself PG_Gift_Guide For added inspiration

For added inspiration

and Mary Logan Wolf

with the entire city corrupted -- from the people to the very buildings they inhabit -- only the most wretched sort of existence remains

and ableism can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity “excoded” and therefore vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools

The joy is in the tacit agreement between artist and reader that what's happening is magic

Kingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself PG_Gift_Guide For added inspirationThis delightfulcompelling (Scientific American) and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play will fill you with joy and wonder (Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus). Acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australias Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bears on Alaskas Aleutian