The Other Side

Brenda Baltensperger is a playwright, a director of children’s
theatre, an editor of children’s fiction, and the author of Fractured
Fairy-tales.

One day a king gathers all the children in his kingdom together and
sends them on a quest to discover what is on “the other side”
(presumably the other side of the kingdom). The children set out on
their journey and return, years later, to report to the king that the
only difference about the other side is that everything is backward.
Dissatisfied with this answer, the king travels to the other side
himself. The story ends with the king traveling back and forth from one
side of his kingdom to the other “until the end of time.”

Whether this meagre story loses some of its impact as a result of
translation is hard to judge. The surrealistic Dali-style illustrations,
though well executed, are unlikely to appeal to young children. Not
recommended.