Grandfather's Garden : Bedtime Stories for Little and Big Folk

Grandfather's Garden. Whether or not we ever had a grandfather or a grandmother with a garden, merely to say it calls to mind so much of delight, and yearning, and wonder. That old timey, comforting sense of security. The smell of fresh earth turned. The excitement of the discovery of the magic of flowers, vegetables, and indeed all growing things when one is very young. Or in-between. Or knowing for sure what love is by then, when one is very old.In this book we meet what at the favored level increasing thousands aspire to one might call a prototypical family of Father, Mother, and Four Children. And of course Grandfather. Once he was known as the world's most brilliant plant scientist. Now most people'including Father and Mother'think he's ?quite cuckoo.' But Rachel, Gwendoln, Timothy, and Rawlson know better.Off they run to live with Grandfather and listen to his stories. Night after night they revel in the adventures of the Mifwump, the Carrot Who Wanted to be a Speed Boat Racer, Babbage the Cabbage, Thudglinka, the Tumbling Tumbleweeds, and Phyllis the Talking Pillbox.And every day they work with Grandfather in the fields of all the super vegetables that, because everybody thinks he's ?cuckoo,? he's growing in secret to feed the world. Every day they get to thump and test carrots as big as themselves, eggplants as big as elephants, corn even twice ?as high as an elephant's eye,? so that maybe someday nobody will ever again have to go to bed hungry.But then it happens. Father and Mother find where they're hiding. Will they have to go home again? What will happen to Grandfather? And all the super vegetables? And all the people in the world who can't get enough to eat?Fifth book for the Entertainment and Humor Cycle by David LoyeLoye, David is the author of 'Grandfather's Garden : Bedtime Stories for Little and Big Folk', published 2008 under ISBN 9780979525773 and ISBN 0979525772.