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This profile page for DISTANT SERENADE is on behalf of and in conjunction with
Michael McLean who created this project and wrote the story and most of the songs, and John Batdorf who composed all of the "Underscore Music" and some of the songs with Michael McLean. Scott Snow is the illustrator.
With this page we offer all licensing rights now available, including
-film/tv
-educational filmstrip
-book and serial reprint
-book translation and publication
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DISTANT SERENADE by Michael McLean,
Illustrated by Scott Snow,
Underscore Composed by John Batdorf
After several weeks in the Australian bush studying the storytelling traditions of an Aboriginal tribe, a weathered anthropologist named Louise is asked what stories she will be passing on to her family. The question catches her off guard, and she starts to cry -- she can't think of any. A few days later an old Aboriginal woman approaches Louise with an offer: "I give you story," she says. "Then you have one for telling when daughter is ready."
"But, I don't have a daughter," Louise explains. The Aborigine shakes her head and says, hauntingly, "She coming ... she coming." A few weeks later Louise receives the news that her sister and brother-in-law have been killed in an accident, leaving their daughter, Ellie, with nowhere to live but with Louise. Soon, her new "daughter" arrives, feeling lost and adrift.
When Louise thinks Ellie is ready, she tells her the story the old woman gave her -- a story of how the earth was sung into existence and of a lost melody in search of its identity. Through the story, Ellie learns about her own unique place in the world and in her family -- a place she hadn't even realized existed.
DISTANT SERENADE is a story about finding your place in the universe, a story that will lead you to know a little more about being what only you can be.
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