The Oonga Frank stories offer delightful and thought provoking explanations to the questions that continuously bubble to the surface of young minds. Why does this happen? What is that thing? Where does it come from? All of the Oonga Frank stories offer fanciful examples of these most basic questions that engage young readers - and offer ways to develop their own answers. The first of these stories, "Oonga Frank Invents Porridge" , was created over 30 years ago, as a way to entertain and capture the imagination of the author''s young son, Eli. As he did, young readers will find a number of other opportunities for explaining, describing and naming, along with learning the answer to the central question of porridge.