In her most celebrated work, 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff acknowledges the gift of a book, noting, “I’ll have mine till the day I die…
Anna Sewell wrote only one book in her lifetime, Black Beauty. Sewell was raised in a Quaker household by a mother who took very seriously the…
Someone once said that a good writer, whether for children or adults, has one story, which he keeps retelling in various disguised ways; the fantastic…
Today is the birthday of Carlo Collodi, the author of Pinocchio, who based his famous character, at least in part, on himself as a child.
Today, August 8th, marks the 110th anniversary of the birthday of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Yearling. Set in 1870 in the…
Jim Haskins passed away this summer. He was very well-known as a writer of biographies and other works of non-fiction for children, young people, and…
Samuel Goodrich, a 19th century children’s author and publisher, was the creator of the popular children’s literature persona, Peter Parley. As a youngster, Goodrich enjoyed…
Holling C. Holling was a children’s author who used exciting narratives to teach nature and geography in large format picture books for children. Holling grew…
It’s Henry David Thoreau’s birthday this week, an appropriate time (though any time is good) to introduce children to the workings of this original mind.…
Harriet Lothrop, who wrote under the pen name of Margaret Sidney, left young readers a multi-faceted literary legacy. One day on a trip into the…