Treasure Island and A Child’s Garden of Verses.

Kipling’s Jungle books and Just So Stories. I loved so many that it is impossible to pick a favorite. Once chores (lawn mowing, carrying out the garbage, weeding) were done, I was free to roam with my friends through a landscape much more accessible than any comparable one now. In those Depression days children were not densely scheduled as they now seem to be. Suburban, mildly affluent, for the most part idyllic. From 12 through high school, Ann Arbor, MI. When and where were you born? Where did you grow up?ġ925. Here are his (approximately) 41 answers (among them, another reminder that a rejection is not always the end): (Then again, I did ask a lot, to which Edward wrote “Cry you mercy, sir! Forty-one questions!”) For Edward kindly agreed to an interview and generously shared a richer tableau than I could’ve rightfully asked. But then I get excited because it means maybe I can be the one to help change that.Īs is the case here.

I continue to be surprised whenever I find that someone whose work I loved in a younger day has almost no or literally no online presence-barely a photo and nary an interview. After several attempts, I managed to get his attention and asked if I could interview him. Much more recently, I discovered the author himself, the charming Edward Ormondroyd. Ī few years into my professional writing career, I rediscovered the book, which had recently been reissued by Purple House Press. As a boy, I read and loved a novel called David and the Phoenix.

All in Good Time by Edward Ormondroyd