Molly's Song

Molly's Song is a father's lament, written to his daughter on the eve of a combat deployment and in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks. It is his love, his loss, his yearning and his hope for her, strikingly drawn in a colorful, narrative verse. Here is the story: I once picked for you wildflowers, and wove them into your braided hair/ You danced through a field of tall grass, a child of nature, without a care.” Here are pizzas and pies, fanciful creatures in the clouds, insect musicians, tiny woodsman and frog operas. Wonderfully illustrated, richly imagined but in sparing detail- notice that the wizard is facing away? – so that your child will complete each picture. That is the father's hopeful message here: The marvelous is all around you, you need only take the time to look/and listen, then build a lovely story, or a silly one, like in this Daddy's book.