February - Author of the Month February 13 2026
If you have children and you have not yet discovered Reg Down’s marvelous stories for them, NOW IS A GREAT CHANCE. As Library Lady, deviating from exclusively Waldorf Publications books is extraordinary, but simply irresistible!
Reg has written books for both grown-ups and children. There is one book Reg has published with Waldorf Publications (formerly AWSNA Publications): Leaving Room for the Angels: Eurythmy and the Art of Teaching, a golden, highly valuable book for adults that explains Eurythmy clearly and fluidly. Leaving Room for the Angels is a book cherished for the promise it fulfills: to go through the realities of Eurythmy and its powerful place in the Waldorf curriculum, as a vehicle for the art of teaching, and as Eurythmy’s magical place in a child’s development and an adult’s health. There is no other book like it!
Oh, but the children’s stories are remarkable and moving! They make real for us all (children especially) the living world of the gnomes of the Earth, the fairies of the air, the water beings, and the fire salamanders. The stories are lighthearted and filled with trust in the living being of all that is our Earth. Reg’s greatest body of children’s stories is in the works, as a group called The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly. This little fairy lives in an acorn at the top of a mighty oak tree. Jermey Mouse and his family live at the roots of the same tree. Her best friends are two gnomes, Pine Cone and Pepper Pot, who live in the same neighborhood as Tiptoes and the gnomes and mice. June Berry and her brother, Tom, know all the characters well. They live with their father, a farmer, and with the two house fairies, Pins and Needles.
These are stories that children will enjoy being read again and again. The skill with which the stories are told, with ever so light black-and-white illustrations (leaving space for a child’s own imaginative reflections!), is darling and makes it clear how small these busy spirits can be in comparison to our world.
Reg Down has an international life story, having been raised in Canada, Namibia, South Africa, and Ireland. He received a diploma in Eurythmy in Nuremberg, Germany, after starting his schooling at Emerson College in England. He has taught Eurythmy in Waldorf schools in the United States and Canada. This diverse background and his clear love and understanding of the different phases of a child’s consciousness have made him a remarkably adept teller of tales, delighting and engaging the young (and the old who read them to the young).
You can find most of his books for children at www.waldorfpublications.org or at Reg Down’s website, where you can see the lush list of all his tales and books. To make Reg Down our author of the month in the month of Valentine’s Day is a humble tribute in gratitude to Reg Down for his love of children and his willingness to spin that love into the gold of wonderful stories!