Dad's New Path

Dad's New Path (1995) Post 258

Dad's New Path by Darrel and Sally Odgers

Dad's New Path is an easy-read story I co-wrote with my husband. He had been making a concrete path, and before it was set, it acquired various footprints. We thought this would make a good basis for a story, and it did. Dad mixes the ingredients (Darrel thought this was good for children to know) Dad makes the path meticulously smooth (as my husband himself would). Then he goes in to put his feet up. A dog spots the path and walks along it. So does a cat. So does a little girl. The path is not what Dad expected to see upon his checking it, so he re-renders it. Satisfied, he goes inside... and that night, a little mouse arrives...

I think we had a cockatoo as the final footprinter, but the editor changed it to a mouse.

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