Children are full of wonders. What they are able to accomplish under the right circumstances and guidance exceeds our highest expectations. This little book contains a treasure-trove of fourth and fifth graders' writing, but it contains the traces of much more than that, because their writing is based on true reading: the careful, disciplined attention to the behavior of great texts. "A Story in Paragraphs" bears witness to the accomplishments and promises of an education in leisure. Children can indeed fly, if only we don't clip their wings.