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Dedication

This book is dedicated to my two daughters and my two grandchildren, who always keep me looking at the world through brand new eyes. To my husband, Roger, who taught me we could move mountains together. To my mother Jacquelin Morris, who taught me the love of nature and so much more. Finally, to my father Art (Red) Curtin, who passed away before the mountain erupted. You taught me my most important lesson, faith. Daddy, you will always be loved and never be forgotten.
 

About the Book

Come with me
To the Bar-Roo Trees,
A place which may-
Or may not be.
Meant for just your eyes to see
And live within your memory.

There are seven Bar-Roo Forests on earth. Two are in the state of Washington, on Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier. Mana planted them all. He came from the planet Anon, a planet of volcanoes. Mana was the hope of his world, chosen to find a new home for the Hibble Gibbles, a race of creatures very friendly and hairy with feet that are at least 2 feet long.

Mana's favorite forest was the one on Mt. St. Helens, where he chose to live his Earth life. Everyone speaks the same language in the Bar-Roo forest. There is great magic in the forest, though much of the magic is more of a feeling that the trees are listening to everything.

Share the adventure of the Hibble Gibbles as they find a new home, out-smart their enemies the Giant Termites, and face the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.
 

Reviews

"Finely tuned, fanciful and occasionally magical, this first volume of Gieseke's projected series of the life of Hibble Gibbles in the volcanic forests of the Pacific Northwest, lets the mind escape into a very real fantasy world. Gieseke's prose becomes more fluid and her world becomes more complex, ambiguous and credible with each page."
~ Dana Greenlee, Tacoma journalist.