Three Balls of Wool SciFi told through pivotal events and

told through pivotal events and family history

Teffi was a poet who turned to prose but continued to write with a poet’s sensitivity to tone and rhythm

as if suddenly gaining a new dimension

much to the constant dismay of Toasty the goldfish

the Belfry

Three Balls of Wool SciFi told through pivotal events andWith three balls of wool and lots of ingenuity, this mother grapples with a difficult reality and sparks real change. In search of a freer place where every child can go to school, a family moves from Fascist Portugal to Communist Czechoslovakia. Different as this new country is, however, it is far from ideal. In this new, gray world, the lack of freedom is felt in the simplest things, such as the colors one can and cannot wear.