At first glance, author Matthue Roth and illustrator Rohan Daniel Eason's The Gobblings is as different from their first picture book, My First Kafka, as can be. While My First Kafka reached into the past to retell three Kafka tales, The Gobblings launches the reader into a distant future full of aliens, space machinery, and that perennial, universal picture-book fixture, loneliness. But very much like My First Kafka, The Gobblings is inspired in part by a Jewish master storyteller, the Baal Shem Tov.

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