Old Grandpa Moon, Illustrated

Yesterday evening, I put the finishing touches on the presentation of a new illustrated edition of my children’s story, Old Grandpa Moon. The link is accessible from any page, beneath my name, the site title, and the picture of books. It’s the last link on the right, next to Keepsakes. Or, if you’re reading the email or WordPress Reader version of this note, you can visit the new stand-alone page by clicking here.

Old Grandpa Moon was written in 1993. I shared it on my first blog, Recently Banned Literature, in 2015, mentioning at the time my wish that it were illustrated. I also included it here in Poems, Notes, and Drawings in 2020.

Now, thirty years after it was written, my dream for the story has finally come true, thanks to a kind, gifted artist in Spain, Olga Álvarez Rubio. Her quiet, spontaneous response to little Simon’s night-time adventure with his dear, snoring grandpa brings me great joy. Our hope is that the child in you, too, will find pleasure, and perhaps even inspiration, in this simple, old-fashioned story.

Read the seventy-fifth chapter of Middlemarch.

October 26, 2023.

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