Sonder Place : Helen Kang Jo : 9781732996915 : 1732996911 : 14 Feb 2019 : There is a place where many houses are all jumbled. There, everything - doors, walls, windows, roofs, paths, and alley- is all piled and clustered, and incredibly each one leads to the others. So just walking among those houses feels like playing hide-and-seek. Alok lives there. It's a bright morning. Alok feels brave today. I am ready for an adventure, he declares. Alok hesitates in front of a house he has walked by often. He barely knocks on the door, and it swings open! There stands a granny up on a ladder by a huge window. "Good morning. My name is Alok." "That s a beautiful name, Alok. Good morning. Please come in," the granny offers kindly. "Thank you. What are you painting up there?" asks Alok. "A sun. I am tracing a morning sun and painting it on my window so that I can keep it all day long. My room gets dark very quickly in the afternoon." Oh! Alok smiles with a nod. "You have a beautiful smile just