Coming September 15, 2019!!
Some Bedtime Stories for Little and Big Folk
by DAVID LOYE
Illustrations by A. Christopher Simon
$14.95 softbound 17.95 hardbound
$4.99 eBook (all formats)
Grandfather's Garden has the endearing quality of a classic of a new kind. As with the Harry Potter books, its rollicking stream of quirky tales is for "both little and big folk." That is, it's for "kids, teens, grownups, and for the close, warm delight of reading aloud by moms and dads to kids at bedtime."
Eggplants big as elephants. Tap dancing stalks of celery. A pomegranate that made of itself a big bass drum and walked around with a cheery boom boom boom. And best of all, Grandfather's stories. The Clam that made a pearl. The Baby Carrot who wanted to be a speed boat racer. Georgio's Magic Bean. Babbage the Cabbage. Thudglinka, Phyllis the Talking Pillbox, and more—all come to life and dance across the page.
We meet the Clam that made a Pearl. The Baby Carrot who wanted to be a speed boat racer. Thudglinka and the Nasty Thistles. Phyllis the Talking Pillbox. Flippo who circles the earth skywriting Joy to the World. Babbage the Cabbage. Tumbling Tumbleweeds. And above all, the powerful Mifwump, who sees all, knows all, and can be everywhere all at once.
Well known evolutionary systems psychologist David Loye, author of Darwin's Lost Theory and the award-winning The Healing of a Nation, is the book's 94-year-old author. A. Christopher Simon, whose endearing work has adorned ageless classics for a long list of leading publishers, is the book's 92-year-old illustrator.
The book ends with a breathtaking leap from print to the internet. For out of his story in this story book, the Mifwump bursts into our real world to lead a revolution of Joy versus Gloom—search word Mifwump.
Official publication date September 15, 2019
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GRANDFATHER'S GARDEN
Some Bedtime Stories for Little and Big Folk
Author: David Loye
Illustrator: A. Christopher Simon
Published by Osanto Books, 2019
Designed by David Gordon, Lucky Valley Press
6 x 9 inches, 124 pages
Softbound $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-578-43090-4
Hardbound $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-578-50902-0
eBook (all formats) $4.99
ISBN: 978-0-578-50901-3