1. When is a good time to tell children that they have been adopted? What do specialists in child psychology recommend?

2. British author Wilkie Collins said that it was the novelist's job to find the romance in everyday life. To what extent does Rewind manage to do this?

3. What are the similarities between Peter's trying to learn to play baseball and Meyer's trying to learn to make a puppet? What do these experiences tell us about each character?

4. "Realistic details are what make people believe things they find hard to believe," Eloise tells Peter. How does Peter put this idea into action? What does he learn about entertaining an audience when he tries to do what Eloise suggests?

5. "Research helps you make it realistic. And the more realistic it is, the more you believe in the magic," Peter says to Meyer...