Once upon a time, there was a big blue house on the side of a mountain where Ruby and Daniel lived with their mom and dad.

We want to preserve the magic world we’ve created for posterity — for our kids, but also for anyone else who might take pleasure in reading these stories or sharing them with their children and feeling some of the magic we felt exploring the kids’ realm at bedtime.

When we started writing the Magic Carpet stories, we’d just encountered a lovely children’s book called My Valley by Claude Ponti.

It all begins with an idea.

Since this world evolved organically over the course of hundreds of bedtime stories, it’s hard to pinpoint where specific events take place in time.