WHERE TO BUY
1. Click to find a bookstore near you
We invite you to support your local bookstore if you're lucky enough to have one. If Grandfather's Garden is not on the shelf, a bookstore can order it easily and can sometimes have it for you in 2 or 3 days. Use the link above to search by zip code.
2. Order online worldwide. For example:
Click to find the best prices online
Visit David Loye's Amazon Author Page
View this book on David Loye's website
Grandfather's Garden by David Loye
Illustrated by A. Christopher Simon
124 pages, 6x9 inches, softbound
ISBN: 978-0-578-43090-4
Also available in hardbound & ebook editions
Published by Osanto Books
Distributed worldwide by Ingram
Some bedtime stories
for Little and Big Folk
by David Loye
Illustrations by A. Christopher Simon
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.
Particularly exciting for big folk as well as little folk is how the all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-caring Mifwump has burst out of his story in this storybook to lead a new revolution of Joys versus Glooms. You can read all about it in this book—or use the search word Mifwump on the internet.
Three grandfathers worked together to give you this little book. Its 94-year-old author. Its 92-year-old illustrator. And on the cover Grandfather dancing with his friends from around the world.
"Come join us to dig, plant,
and water joy
to the world
in Grandfather's Garden!"