Shau-yu is simply on her way to buy eggs for dinner's fried rice, yet she takes the reader on a journey filled with adventure and imaginings. This joyful story of one young girl's morning journey slowly turns into an adventure as shadows become tightropes, a marble transforms into a sea of azure ... Shau-yu manages to both play and run the errand. The author perfectly captures the childhood experience of turning a short trip to the corner store into an adventure.