Charles Perrault, born in Paris in 1628, had an active life. He first became a lawyer, but growing bored with that, he became chief clerk…
Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama, though she would also claim that she was born in Eatonville, Florida, in…
Jean de Brunhof, who was born this week in 1899 and who became famous for his picture books about Babar the elephant, didn’t actually create…
Today is the birthday of C. S. Lewis, and Kevin Shortsleeve has some thoughts about this famous British author.
In her on-going series of programs that rediscover interesting children’s book authors of the past, Rita Smith remembers Jacob Abbot.
Toward the end of her life, Kate Douglas Wiggin was named by the San Francisco Examiner as one of the six most distinguished women in…
There are some writers of children’s books whom you could classify as “one hit wonders” – authors whose current reputation as a children’s writer rests…
Charles Kingsley’s reputation in the world of children’s literature rests almost solely on his novel Water Babies, which, along with Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland,…
Harriet Beecher Stowe did write books and stories specifically for children but they have sunk into obscurity, when compared to her masterpiece, Uncle Tom’s Cabin,…
It is always interesting to discover what childhood activities influenced adult lives. Rachel Carson, born May 27, 1907, grew up to be a concerned natural…