Gorky Rises

Gorky Rises is an imaginative and humorous story about a frog who concocts a potion that grants him the ability to fly—from William Steig, the Caldecott and Newbery Medal-winning creator of Shrek!.

One fresh and fair summer day, as soon as his parents go out, Gorky sets up his laboratory by the kitchen sink to have another try at concocting a magic potion. This time he strikes upon the missing ingredient—half a bottle of his mother's attar of roses—and he knows it's a success at last.

While h...