This children's book attracted me first because of its beautiful illustrations, but the story itself is very moving.
There are two neighbouring kingdoms, one rich and one poor. One day an old man goes to visit the poor kingdom and stays at the king's castle, which is in shambles. In exchange for the visit, the old man gives the king a spyglass. With it he can look out on his ruined fields and weeds and see "what could be"--prosperity and beauty.
The king wonders what use such a thing would be to him, but quickly he discovers once you envision a change, you can make it happen.
As he passes the spyglass from villager to villager, amazing things happen to the kingdom.
The moral of the story is that the poor kingdom was not lacking in anything that the rich kingdom had, except for faith.
Beautiful images, a touching story, my 7-8 year old students loved it!
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