While presenting a reading of his book, John and Mother Goose: The Carnival of Tales, John finds himself thinking of verses he came across in a book of Mother Goose nursery rhymes -- obscure verses that he had never heard of, either as a child or an adult. As his attention wanders, John suddenly finds himself in an old oak forest together with a group of nursery-rhyme characters, who -- because John is known as a writer -- ask John to use his skills to improve their verses and make them equal to the well-known rhymes featured in The Mother Goose Carnival of Tales. Will John be willing to raise these characters’ verses from the valley of dull, uninteresting stories to the mountain-top of timeless, mythical tales? And will he be equal to the task if he tries? Available at Amazon