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Author Boyack has conceived a new adventure for Emily and Ethan Tuttle, young twins with sharp minds who are amazed when they accompany their parents to New York City and see a musical production on Broadway. Watching a television show about potential entrepreneurs and the “sharks” that offer financial support, they gradually develop the desire to start the first and only real theater in their hometown. Their grandmother Nana owns and once managed a dance studio, so a venue is available, though now in a rundown condition. After the twins learn about entrepreneurship, the family sets to work to write a play, spruce up the old studio, advertise the coming stage show to the local community, and solicit funding, all underpinned by the twins’ burgeoning ambition to offer this new service to their neighbors. The first night is a grand success, but who is that mysterious woman sitting in the front row and taking notes?
Boyack, the creator of a series of books about the Tuttle twins, is president of Libertas Institute, which promotes free market concepts. His delightful saga of the twins’ determination to give the townspeople a new form of entertainment is brightly illustrated by Elijah Stanfield, whose media productions are based on ideas of individual freedom. The Tuttle twins—a boy and girl who think alike and work equally hard at their endeavors—neatly fit Boyack’s paradigms with their active intelligence and willingness to undertake new ventures, stimulated by family encouragement and youthful enjoyment of challenge. Their wish to become recognized businesspeople is matched with their longing to bring happiness to others, a combination that the author clearly intends to enhearten other youngsters and their parents to push ahead in a variety of spheres.
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