As the Goose Flies

Every evening, Ellen sits with her grandmother and helps her remember the stories she keeps forgetting. The old woman is so ancient she calls Ellen by the names of her own children, dead decades ago. But Ellen knows the tales by heart Goldilocks, Jack and the Beanstalk, the three bears. She finishes them for her grandmother, who can only remember fragments. One rainy afternoon, while tidying the bookcase, Ellen discovers a way through the nursery wall into a sunlit meadow where Mother Goose presides over a peculiar house full of nursery rhyme characters. She's on a mission: to find the forgotten story of Princess Goldenlocks, a tale her grandmother can no longer recall. With the help of a friendly gander, she navigates enchanted landscapes and meets the inhabitants of the Queerbodies, where forgotten stories dwell. A tender slice of early twentieth-century whimsy, this is a book about the magic of remembering and being remembered. It will appeal to readers who love gentle fantasies about the relationship between the very young and the very old.