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The first page and I was about to check out and rate this low and then Chris brings his vision to us and I love this book. It’s about our environment and how we are the stewards of the world. It is up to us what the world will look like. It is a little Sci-fy tale. You know how the Native Americans are always asking themselves how this decision affects the next 7 generations. This story has a long perspective like that, encouraging us to think long term instead of day-to-day.

A boy only cares about his TV program and the future with robots and flying cars. I told my nephew it sounds like him. He was supposed to set out the recycling, but he threw it all away. The boy wakes up at night and his bed has taken him to the future and he sees various ways the future is going. There are no flying cars or robots, only pollution and trash. Over and over he wakes up to see a sad world. Fisherman catch 2 tiny fish and rejoice. It’s depressing. The boy wakes up and changes his tune.

Anyway, I love this story. How nice if we could get a nightly glimpse to see how our actions affected our lives and our world 7 generations away. That would be a powerful tool to help us make decisions. I thought this was a wonderful idea.

The nephew was disappointed that the boy saw no robots in the future. He sort of missed the meaning of this story and was focused on robots. I will have to read it to him more than once and hope something leaks in. He gave this 2 stars.