There’s a scene from The NeverEnding Story that has stuck with me for years. A boy is reading a book, eating an apple, completely absorbed in the story in front of him. For a little while, the world around him seems to disappear.
That feeling has always stayed with me. Not because I wanted to recreate that story. Because I wanted to recreate that feeling.
The feeling of becoming so curious about what happens next that you forget you’re reading.
The feeling of entering another world and coming back to your own looking at things a little differently.
That is what I want kids to experience with The Adventures with Frisbee Rob.
- I want them standing beneath an apple tree wondering why the Moon doesn’t fall.
- I want them beside Archimedes asking why a small stone sinks while a much larger frisbee floats.
- I want them watching Leonardo da Vinci pick up another flying machine that didn’t work and wondering what he might change next.
But more than anything, I want the questions to follow them after the story ends.
I want a kid to look at a leaf blowing across the playground, a frisbee floating through the air, a bird gliding overhead, or something that didn’t work the way they expected and think:
Why did that happen?
That is where the Wind comes in.
The Wind is more than a way for Rob to travel from one adventure to another.
It begins to stir when curiosity takes over — when a question becomes too interesting to ignore.
But the Wind never gives Rob the answer.
It simply shows him where the question might lead.
For more than three years, I’ve been building this world one question, one story, and one idea at a time.
Tomorrow, I’m finally opening the door.
Adventure 000: Where the Wind Begins arrives tomorrow.
Then Monday morning, the first full adventure begins with Isaac Newton.
The Wind is beginning to stir.
