An accessible plan for anyone transitioning to a healthy plant based diet that highlights delicious easy vegan and raw recipes Gary Soto writes that when he was five what I knew best was at ground level In this lively collection of short essays Soto takes his reader to a ground level perspective resreating in vivid detail the sights sounds smells and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno California neighborhood The things of his boyhood tie it all together his Buddha splotched with gold the taps of his shoes and the engines of sparks that lived beneath my soles his worn tennies smelling of summer grass asphalt the moist sock breathing the defeat of basesall The child s world is made up of small things small very important things - from Amzon