In the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle and C.S. Lewis, Roger Robbennolt has fashioned the collection children's stories for adults. In recounting childhod with a expiriences as "autobiographical mythologies," Robbennolt offers a place of refuge where the child within us can find healing. Sharply hpned images weave together laughter and tears to both amuse and call forth compassion and a fuller insight into the human condition. During his life as a performer and minister, Robbennolt regularly told the stories of Gletha the Goatlady aloud to audiences of children. In print, the adventures and misadventures of a young boy in Minnesota, 1942, touch on the universally human need to feel whole

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