Harold Jones

Sir Biscuit Butterworth and Other Short Stories, Poems, and Fables

Children & Youth

“As Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and others have taught us, the superficially frivolous may be profoundly instructive. It’s a tradition of imaginative creation that Paul Krause has understood and turned to fresh purpose. Here, in the adventures—the mixed successes and failures—of his host of characters is a world of imagination expressing the facts of experience together with the ideals of life. His fables thus re-picture life in its wholeness, in which, amidst the snakes and ladders of various human endeavors, lasting principles are demonstrated and made compelling and memorable for a new generation. Thoughtful—yes, indeed! Entertaining—yes, more than!”

The Incredible Adventure of Passer the Sparrow

Fiction

“When the language of true and false is degraded, how do you make a story tell fundamental truths? There is one way, one very ancient way and, wisely, Paul Krause has chosen it. It is the use of fable. The Incredible Adventure of Passer the Sparrow is an adventure for every thinking adult and child—or the child in every adult, and the adult in every child. This is the power of fable. It reaches through and beyond the worn words of human narrative and teaching, to the basic experiences that underpin all our truths. And thus, a family of sparrows and their near and distant friends, the dangers they face, and the triumphs they achieve can tell us much of what truly matters in life. Here, in this fable of nature, we join in the unchanging, the eternal, in being human. So, preen your feathers. Become a sparrow with Passer. Feel your wings. Take flight!”