The Little Father

by Gelett Burgess, Richard Egielski (Illustrator)

Addicted to drinking Indian ink, a father begins shrinking and must be cared for by his loving young son.

28 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1985

About the author

Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the term "blurb."