5 Cherries

A book about two siblings who travel into the depths of their own imaginations through a simple game of make-believe with a handful of cherries.

A mother gives her two children five cherries each. One is a girl, one a boy, but they become hard to identify as the game goes on and they throw off traditional markers of gender identity-a headband, a pair of shoes-and their play becomes deeper and more revealing. The ungendered language of the imagination has full reign here as the children exper...