'Fuddles' Author, Peter Yarrow, and a Pop-Up 'Puff' Bookend a Big Day in Los Altos
Linden Tree starts out Monday with an appearances by Frans Vischer, and then pulls out all stops with Peter Yarrow, whom Baby Boomers recognize from the iconic 'Peter, Paul and Mary' days.
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Oh, to be young again, with so much kid lit star power at Linden Tree Book.
In the morning was Frans Vischer, an animator for Disney, who read "Fuddles," a fat suburban housecat who discovers the Great Outdoors ain't all it's cracked up to be.
In the afternoon, the star of the day, Peter Yarrow proved one can relive one's youth, given the number of grandparents in the audience during his performance—and the excited, exclamations of young fans who knew every word of "Puff the Magic Dragon."
Arriving at his spot at 5 p.m., Yarrow entertained the small and the tall for nearly an hour with "This Land is Your Land," "If I Had a Hammer," and of course, that little song he and Lenny Lipton wrote in 1958, about the passing of innocence when a child doesn't believe in dragons and make-believe anymore.
"Puff" got both the pop-up book treatment via paper master Bruce Foster and the fantastical illustrations of Eric Puybaret, plus a CD.
At 73, Yarrow an archetypal grandfather figure now—approachable, playful, talented and indulgent—if "archetypal" includes riffing on current events like Occupy Wall Street and universal healthcare.
