Lamby Asks Grandpa Dean About
His Strange Wishing Well Stories for Kids

A Candid Interview of the Famous Storyteller

LAMBY – Hello, everybody! Today at the Lambpants studio we have a very special guest. Philosopher, warrior poet, storyteller and handsome man, Grandpa Dean. Hi, Grandpa Dean, welcome to your interview, which is an honor for you today.

GRANDPA DEAN – Thank you, Lamby. I appreciate you having me here.

LAMBY – Anytime, anytime! Now, this Lamb has a few questions for the wishing well story man. I am sure your readers would like some answers to the questions. The first question of your interview is this: what would you wish for if you only had one wish?

GRANDPA DEAN – That’s a tough one, Lamby.

LAMBY – No it’s not – you just make a wish.

GRANDPA DEAN – Yeah, yeah, I guess…

LAMBY – Make a wish, whatever pops into your head. Wish, like right now, if I could, I would wish for pants, for more pants. I like pants.

GRANDPA DEAN – You would wish for pants?

LAMBY – I would wish for more pants – very simple wish.

GRANDPA DEAN – I guess if I had one wish to make I would wish that everyone could be happy.

LAMBY – You should wish something for yourself.

GRANDPA DEAN – Well, I don’t want to be selfish.

LAMBY – Is that bad?

GRANDPA DEAN – Yeah, it’s bad to be selfish.

LAMBY – Okay, well, you have TWO wishes, and the first one is a happy wish – and everyone is happy! – and now you have another wish. What would you wish for?

GRANDPA DEAN – Lamby you’re a tough interviewer.

LAMBY – No, this is a very simple question. Two wishes: the first is people are happy, yay! That is a good wish. NOW, what is the second wish? Today?

GRANDPA DEAN – Well, I’m thinking.

LAMBY – Maybe the second wish is that you would be able to wish a wish.

GRANDPA DEAN – Probably so.

LAMBY – Yeah, that would be best. “I wish that I could make a wish!”

GRANDPA DEAN – Yeah, I wish.

LAMBY – Have you ever made a wish in real life and have it come true?

GRANDPA DEAN – I probably have, but right now I can’t think.

LAMBY – Probably you wished that you could marry Grandma Brenda, and then your wish came true and it’s been a magical ride ever since.

GRANDPA DEAN – Yes, it has, it has.

LAMBY – And that’s why you write wishing stories. Okay, I have a question about this very strange camel. Is there a significance of the albino camel? Is it a desert thing?

GRANDPA DEAN – The wish granters had put him there. He was very light skinned too.

LAMBY – Oh, that’s deep.

GRANDPA DEAN – Yeah, it’s really deep.

LAMBY – That’s pretty powerful stuff – there’s, there’s lessons there.

GRANDPA DEAN – Yes, all these stories do.

LAMBY – What is the significance of a shower granting a wish? Because most showers do not – they grant you clean skin and to smell not so bad as you did before getting into the shower. I wish more people would take showers.

GRANDPA DEAN – I can understand that – it’s kind of a combination of things. It was the water, and the water made the steam, and the steam fogged up the mirror, and then there was writing. So there was a combination of things.

LAMBY – That makes no sense. I mean, that SOUNDS great, but let’s move on to this wish-granting gremlin story. This has caused some very controversial discussions since the release of this book.

GRANDPA DEAN – I certainly hope so.

LAMBY – The gremlin had a howler monkey. That is the question on everybody’s mind – why did this gremlin have a howler monkey on the plane?

GRANDPA DEAN – The gremlin, as you know, he had trouble making friends, and he just happened to pick out this howler monkey to be his friend. And that’s why they were close companions. Do you understand that?

LAMBY – It makes perfect sense to this Lamb. Okay, on the back of the book…it says here, “And Grandpa Dean is a handsome man to this day.” What happened?

GRANDPA DEAN – I’ve just aged a little bit.

LAMBY – Okay, tell me about this war in Canada.

GRANDPA DEAN – Well, it was a misunderstanding. I was with my Boy Scout troop along the Canadian border at a convention on the American side. Late one evening the Canadians fired rubber balloons on us filled with water for no reason.

LAMBY – For no reason? That’s crazy talk.

GRANDPA DEAN – And naturally, we had to take action and we fired back.

LAMBY – Canada shouldn’t even be there, it’s like Baja Montana or something, or maybe part of Alaska. One last question for Grandpa Dean, and then we will bid farewell until the next time this Lamb talks to you. Why don’t you tell me about these mysterious wishing penguins of Wisconsin? Will you be writing any stories about them?

GRANDPA DEAN – Oh, yeah, I will, but I don’t want to give anything away, but these penguins are really mysterious.

LAMBY – So they are Lutherans.

GRANDPA DEAN – Well, they could be, but you’re gonna have to wait and see.

LAMBY – Okay, I will wait and see. Alright, well, thank you for stopping by the studio today to give an interview to this Lamb. I hope the next time you will be more handsome.

GRANDPA DEAN – I hope I will too – thank you very much.

LAMBY – Okay, bye!

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