Horace The Hopper

Horace is a grasshopper who thinks he's the best hopper in the world, until a stranger shows up who says HE'S the best hopper.Note: In 1953 a newly married young couple (my parents) decided to produce a series of illustrated children's books. My father, a part-time artist, and my mother, who was all of 16 years old at the time, ultimately created four books. When my father passed away in 2000, I found these long-forgotten manuscripts in a box of his belongings. One book was lost, never to be found. I decided to take the three remaining books and self-publish them through Kindle, a technological miracle that my parents could never have imagined in 1953. Rather than use technology to clean up these 60+ year old pages, I chose to scan them exactly as they are, showing old paper clip marks where the text was attached and other marks of over half a century of being stored away. The story was by my mother, the art handpainted in watercolors by my father. I've added the text using modern means and made slight revisions to the text, mainly for grammatical reasons, but other than that they are as they were in July of 1953.