The Grundilini

ISBN 1-889658-24-3

$12.95

original trade paper

Young Adult/Fiction

5½” x 8½”

208 pages

In today’s world it is imperative that children understand the conquering power of love over hate, and the need for good to vanquish evil. The Grundilini takes up the challenge.

Its main protagonist is thirteen-year-old Audelae, leader of a peaceful village by the Amber Forest. Her magical flower, a symbol of faith, has protected and nourished her once-divided people. Now it is stolen by Riker, who takes it to Grundilini as a gift for the High Baron. Audelae and a diverse band of individuals seek the return of their stolen treasure.

Journeying through the forest, Audelae and her team meet peaceful Tamali elves who tell of their enslavement by the evil Grundilini. They encounter the perils of deadly Krill spiders that can slice a man into pieces using razor-like, invisible webs. And in facing up to the Grundilini, they must make choices that test their human values and their very understanding of self.

“A page-turner filled with exciting events and memorable, likable characters...Its understanding of good and evil…is deep and instructive – and so far from getting in the way of a good story, it is essential to it.” Traugott Lawler, Professor of English, Yale University.

Doolittle has imagined a world where good can out-love evil, where real strength is not found in what we possess, but in what possesses us, and where hope is the quintessential virtue. It’s a world we can all imagine. Kent Busman, Minister for Youth, Albany Synod, Reformed Church in America

Benjamin Doolittle has significant experience with youth, gained through work in ministry and as a doctor of pediatrics. His experience includes directing and organizing church youth programs, including Sunday School and youth outreach programs both in the U.S. and in Honduras; teaching English in Hong Kong; and ministering as a pediatric physician at Yale-New Haven hospital and as a medical missionary in East Timor, India, and Honduras.