Welcome listeners. I'm Charlie Gibson, along with my daughter, Kate, my co-host, and we welcome you to the bookcase with Kate and Charlie, although, you know, I thought of it occasionally, Kate, is the way the military stamps things. They always sort of do it backwards. So I welcome you to the case, comma, book, comma, the, uh-huh, which is putting it in military. You're shaking your head.

I'm married, I, I, I'm married to a nerd. So I think of that as Yoda speak. I'm Gibson,

comma, Kate, comma, I am. I don't know. I, you know, Gibson, I am. That's a Yoda thing in my house anyway. My brother thought that the ultimate way of the military marking things was balls,

comma, pong, comma ping.

For some reason, they do it backwards.

But this is all off the subject.

We have a book this week that, well, again, I don't know what.

This book can be read, I think, in many levels. Dave Eggers is the author.

Sean Harris is the illustrator. And the book is wonderful. It's a fable. Yeah, I know. It sort of defies

description. I feel the same way about it. The book is called The Eyes and the Impossible. And I would

describe it as an anthropomorphic book, except for it's not what you think of

as typically anthropomorphic. You know, the animals aren't wearing clothes. They aren't visiting

each other's houses. It's very much animals grounded in the animal world. The main character is a dog

named Johannes. He's a freak and he lives in this fictional park with raccoons and squirrels and bison and they have adventures.

And that sounds sort of banal and insipid.

It is not.

It is beautiful and lyrical and lovely.

And it left me with all sorts of good and touching feelings.

I loved this book. It was one of those books where we've had a few of these where I've gotten a hold of a book or my father has gotten a hold of a book. And I've been reading, reading,

and I've realized it's 2 o'clock in the morning and I can't call him to tell him how much I love the book.

So I text him a picture of the cover of the book and I go, read this, read this, read this, read this, read this, read this, read this, read this, read this, read this book.

I'm really excited to recommend it to our listeners. Get a hold of this book and read it and read it to your kids. Yes, it will appeal to all audiences. I think it could be read by young adults,

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