This picture book for adults, with vibrant colors and whimsical images, tells the story of a long and happy marriage. Grow Old With Me captures the journey of a marriage: from the beginning (falling “in-like” and then “in-love”) to the birth of their child (seeing cows as “sisters in milkship”) to their middle years (“high wire artists”) and through their older years (“we still have our dreams”). After more than fifty years, they look at one another with a sense of wonder and tender trepidation—“How did we get to be so old?”
Lucy Rose Fischer, PhD, has won awards for her art, writing, and research. Her last book, I’m New at Being Old, received an Independent Publishers Gold Award and a Midwest Book Award. Before launching her art career, she had a distinguished 25-year career as a researcher in aging and was honored as a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America for her “outstanding achievement and exemplary contributions to the field of aging.”She is featured on the Twin Cities Public Television programs “The Creative Power of Aging” and “Life Changing Art.”