the Wishes Above Yellow House

In a little yellow house in the country, underneath a sky full of stars, a girl named Dae sits outside and dreams. She wishes on shooting stars, for small things, big things, and one quiet wish she barely whispers. For a long and happy life.Years pass. The world changes. The city creeps closer, and the stars above the yellow house slowly disappear into a haze of electric light. But some things, Dae discovers, don't disappear at all.The Yellow House is a gentle, bittersweet story rooted in Avon, Ohio, a place that once was country, and is now something more developed, more built, more bright. It is about childhood wonder, the passage of time, and how the places we come from shape the lives we live long after they change.This book invites children to dream, and adults reading aloud to remember their own yellow house, wherever it was, and whatever it has become.―This book was written by Denise Springsteel and illustrated with drawings inspired and begun by her father, Don Brodke, who started the illustrations before neuropathy slowed his hands. Denise finished them in his spirit ahead of his 90th birthday. This book is for him, and for the artist and creator in all of us.

Pages: 72, Paperback, Independently published