Introducing Our New Book…
HOLLAND PASTURE DOOR
Passage to Fairy Meadow… a tunnel to a beautiful, magical world.
Ady is a ten-year-old girl who lives with her parents and twin, six-year-old brothers on a small farm in Oregon. They have cows, goats, chickens, cats and a dog named Lois. One day they stumble onto a hidden tunnel behind a bush in the pasture behind the barn. Where does it go?
Follow along on their journeys, while Ady, Colter and Case crawl through their secret passage to explore magical Fairy Meadow where they discover talking animals, the power to fly, beautiful fairies and more hidden passages. Oh yes… and a very old rabbit named Tilda.
A Gift For My Grand Kids
I wrote the first story as a gift to entertain my grand kids on our video chats during the pandemic. And to make our tale more interesting, I wrote the three kiddos as the main characters venturing on fantasy adventures; flying, talking to animals and having all sorts of fun.
As the stories increased, the thought of a book arose. What a great addition to my gift! If I gave them a book compiling their adventures in Fairy Meadow, they could read it to their kids and grand kids too!
Below, I have a video of the first time they heard of our new story, Holland Pasture Door. As I had read a few stories on earlier chats, I started this one without any mention of their involvement.
The second video shows us reading the 6th story I had written, in person now after the pandemic isolation had ended. Unbenownst to them, I had published and received the first copy of the book. They knew it might happen someday, but this reading is a surprise when I pull the book out of my bag!
Book Comments
I bought this book and as one grandparent to another what an amazing opportunity to spend time with my grandsons ! They loved the adventure and I felt so loved !
I bought this book and as one grandparent to another what an amazing opportunity to spend time with my grandsons ! They loved the adventure and I felt so loved !
Gail L.
These are lovely stories. As a 74-year-old grandmother, I enjoyed the stories myself and I also Appreciated how children would love These imaginative tales.These are lovely stories. As a 74-year-old grandmother, I enjoyed the stories myself and I also Appreciated how children would love These imaginative tales.
Mary S.
Amazon
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Ady, Colter and Case
The Farm
Holland Pasture Door
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A Special Gift For All
A Tale From Grandpa
Grandpa George was reading stories for his grandkids on video chats during the pandemic. But the tales he found often weren’t exciting enough to hold their interest, so he wrote his own fantasy adventure about his three listeners finding a hidden passage to the magical world of Fairy Meadow. The kids loved the story, so Grandpa continued writing of their frequent journeys through the pasture door to share together.
These stories are now collected into “Holland Pasture Door” for all grandpas to share with their special young ones.
“My beloved Ady, Colter and Case enjoyed these tales… I hope you do too.” – George D. Allen (Grandpa George)
A Side Note:
Carl Sagan’s Thoughts On The Magic of Books
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
“[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Our Amazon Connection
Amazon publishes our book…
