I am offering a FREE custom-designed signed bookplate for anyone who pre-orders my new book THE GOLDEN KEY from the Eerdmans website before December 1st, 2016. It will be shipped in early December.

ORDER THE GOLDEN KEY

Send me a self-addressed stamped regular-sized envelope and an personalization requests and I’ll send you a free signed bookplate. It looks beautiful against the golden yellow endpapers.

Send your request to:

Ruth Sanderson

PO Box 285

Easthampton, MA 01027

NOTES and Sneak Preview:

I started and ended the book wordlessly, with the faires, the guardians of the Key. In the first picture, below, the fairy is sitting with the Key on the tree stump, watching Mossy and his Great-aunt. She is assessing whether he will be the one they want to next find the key.

   In the above illustration, the fairy has decided to choose Mossy, and she flies off to hide the key at the base of the rainbow in Fairyland.

Tangle, the girl who joins Mossy on his quest, has a different experience with the fairies, and a more difficult path than Mossy.

The book ends wordlessly, with the fairy hiding the Golden Key,looking out to the reader as if to say, “Will you be next?”

There are 47 illustrations in the book, in scratchboard, my new favorite medium.

Keep dreaming!

Ruth