Katherine Meighen 2025

Abstract

My project, titled “Folke the Kyrkogrim”, is a children's picture book about a guard dog named Folke, who through his own death, becomes the legendary folk character; the kyrkogrim. The book is written in a memoir style, telling the story of Folke’s life and death from his own perspective. I felt this was important in order to make the story more intimate, like you are sitting down to listen to an old man tell his tales. The intimate nature of the book aims to provide a bit of comfort and aid in minimizing children's fears of the unknown; helping to answer the age-old question, “What happens when we die?”