Author: B.W. Van Alstyne
Retail: $2.99
ISBN: B07M861DP6
Synopsis
The Sweet Adventures of Henry P. Twist: A Sugar Coated Magical Journey Automation and greed have forced master pastry chef - extraordinaire, Henry Peppermint Twist, out of a job at the Brackmeyer Sweets factory and into a dreary retirement home in the countryside. But he soon rediscovers his youth in a land where faeries, myth and magic abound and everything is made of sweets. With the aid of his human and his faerie comrades, Henry takes on a formidable gingerbread-man army led by his ex-boss and nemesis, Charles B. Brackmeyer jr.; a vindictive and greedy man who will stop at nothing to destroy the successful little sweet shop that threatens to crumble the Brackmeyer family empire.
Personal History of the book
The Sweet Adventures of Henry P. Twist started out as an impromtu faerie tale I would tell to my 5 year old daughter, Ariel ( she is now 32). After telling it a while, I said to my self, "This is pretty good, maybe I need to write this down. When I did, however, I wrote it as a screenplay. Many in the industry thought it a good story but felt it would do better first as a book. It took me 20 years to write it. Because of the high fantasy content of the book, many feel it is a great story for children, but in this faerie tale the protagonist is a 65 -year -old pastry chef. The main message I wanted to get across, without being too preachy, is that age is nothing but a number; that you are only as old as you think and feel.