After The Fall is a book written and illustrated by Dan Santat. The book is about how Humpty Dumpty got back up again after his great fall.

After the fall miracularly Humpty got back up again. He was put back together with glue and bandages. But some things couldn’t be fixed by glue and bandages. Humpty was afriad of hights. He couldn’t go back on the wall. He was too scared. He wanted to watch the birds though. Humpty loved birds. He wanted to get closer to them and thats when he fell off the wall. He was detirmined to get closer to the birds without the wall. So he built a plane. But, acidents happen and his plane landed on the wall. So he had to climb up to get it. He was scared. He climbed and climbed and he felt less scared. When he got to the top. He hatched and flew. He turned into a bird.

My connection to this was in hockey. In one game, in the first period, I took a very hard hit. After that I wasn’t playing as well because I was scared to get hit that hard again. 2 shifts later I threw a big hit and I started getting less scared. I kept hitting people and become less scared to get hit. Eventually I wasn’t scared at all and I started playing very well. Thats how I became one of the best hitters on the team.