The title of the book is My Mother's Door. This is the story of Monique, Moe for short. Moe's mother worked for BMW, Plant10 in Spartanburg, SC making left rear doors for BMW X3's, and X4's. Moe's mother passes away while giving birth to Moe's baby brother. Moe is very sad. She misses her mother, but then her father brings her mother home, or to her he does. Moe's father brings home a BMW X3 and Moe feels the presence of her mother in the left rear door. Moe describes all the many ways she can feel her mother in the door, and the positive impact in makes in her life. The BMW is totaled in an accident. During the accident Moe can feel how her mother protected her father, baby brother, and herself. Although the car was totaled, none of passengers in the car were hurt. Her father brings home a new X3, but the left rear door of the new X3 does not have her mother's presence. Moe is very angry at this second loss of her mother, and refuses to ride in the car. She is sent to consulors, but no one seems to understand. Finally her father brings a German BMW engineer home to talk with her. She is pleased that at last someone understands. The book ends happily with Moe riding in the new BMW X3, with a rather beat-up left rear door, but although perhaps not as new as the rest of the car, she now rides safe, secure, and happy, beside her mother's door.

My Mother's Door

Children's Books

Moss, M Heart

Cars, Trains & Things That Go

Marc Moss

An Illustrated Children's Book The title of the book is The Last Fairy Tale, the subtitle of the book is A Very Fishy Story. It is designated for juvenile (0-12) but the humorous story is appropriate for all ages. The book written in rhyme, tells why fairies no longer exist. It begins by describing all the many ways fairies were not actually very helpful to people. It stresses the point that it is not really helpful in life to have things just given to you. One is better off if one has to do things for oneself. The story tells how the fish of long ago were very smart, much smarter than they are now. The fish saw the damage the fairies were doing to people by just making their wishes come true without any effort on the person's part. The fish then decided that for the sake of everybody, the fairies had to go. They met with the fairy king, and tricked him by telling him what every fairy most desired. That there was a place were people did not want their wishes granted. Of course there is no such place as that, but the fairies believed the fish, and headed out in mass to this wonderful island. Fairies an just "pop in" anywhere, but over water they have to fly, and as the fairies flew one the rivers, ponds, lakes, and oceans, the fish jumped up and ate them whole. The last to go the fairy king cursed the fish and took away their intelligence. Though some say they just got tired of thinking. The story ends with the moral that stresses the importance of self relience.

The Last Fairy Tale

Tobias The Terrible Tremayne

Moss, M.

An Illustrated Children's Book The title of the book is The Other Cinderella, the subtitle of the book is The Inventor of the Business Card. It is listed as juvenile (0-12), but the humor of the story would appeal to all ages. The book is written in rhyme, and begins by telling of some the great inventors, and what their inventions were. It laments the fact that the inventors of everyday objects have been forgotten, and rectifies that by giving the names of the inventors of pencils, pens, paper and such. It then tells the story of Jack Mason, the inventor of the business card. Jack was a chimney sweep, and cleaned out the cinders left in fireplaces. He had the idea of a small card he could pass around town advertising the fact. He called himself that Cinder Fella. Now the fairy in Jack's town had a cold, and on the day she was to meet Cinderella, who lived in Jack's town, she just wanted to hurry-up and get home. She heard people calling for Cinder Fella, and decided that would do. She then appeared to Jack and put him in a beautiful satin dress and brocade shawl, plus a carriage to take him to the Prince's Ball. Jack was a businessman and thought why let such a great opportunity go bye. He decided to go to the ball and slip the king his business card. Sadly, when Jack got to the ball and saw the Prince approaching his entrepreneurial spirit failed, and out the ballroom doors he sailed. He dropped his business card while fleeing and the Prince found it and sought him out. The story ends with the moral that people in business need to promote themselves.

The Other Cinderella

An Illustrated Children's Book.Who's in Charge of Halloween? tells the story of Isabel who meets a Giant while vacationing at her grandmother's house in Tarrytown, NY. The Giant's name is Canute. He was not an actual giant but one of the original giants, the first people on earth before human people came into being. He and his brother Klaus were given instructions by The Director of Central Planning to create four holidays for the human people. There was to be one holiday for each season of the year. Klaus, Canute's brother, took the winter one and became Santa Claus. He runs Christmas. Ester, their pet rabbit, took the spring one and became the Easter Bunny. Canute took the fall one and decided to name it Hello Bean Day. He did not try very hard to get it up and running, however, so it did not exactly take off very well. They all rather forgot about the summer one. Isabel decides that Canute's Hello Bean Day has been hijacked by witches, or ghosts, or somebody. After a Google search, she decides the Headless Horseman is the culprit. Canute and Isabel go to a witch to help them track down the Headless Horseman. During a séance, they believe they hear him approaching. They run outside to see a giant fellow on a very strange looking horse waving a pumpkin and yelling "no, no, no." They run away in fear, only to get entangled with each other and land in a ditch full of mud. The Headless Horseman, it turns out, was only Santa Claus on one of his reindeer. He thought it would be fun to ride through Sleepy Hollow waving a pumpkin. The story ends with Santa explaining to Isabel that a holiday about being thankful was never going to be very successful. Human people were much more likely to love Christmas, as they were always wanting something they thought would make them happy instead of being happy with what they have.

Who's in Charge of Halloween

Holidays & Celebrations