This is a story which I told my children, Rachel 
  and Danny, when they were 6 and 3 years old respectively. That was the spring 
  of 1989 when their sister, Naomi was born. They liked the story so much that 
  I wrote it down and sent it to their grandfather, Andrew Ross, to illustrate. 
  We never got around to turning it into a book, but here is the text along with 
  my father's beautiful illustrations. In addition, Rachel, Danny, and Naomi have 
  a younger brother, Jonah, who wonders where he was when all this happened.

