Even today, Gertrude Chandler Warner's classic Depression-era story of Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden -- four hungry children who transform an abandoned boxcar into a home -- fascinates us because, regardless of age, we all long to be on our own. This 60th Anniversary Edition of Warner's classic sports a bright new cover and many new features but retains L. Kate Deal's original silhouettes.
Not every TV show was dreamed up by some people on their laptops in Hollywood. Many of today’s most popular shows have literary origins. Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, for example, and Westworld is a thorough and thoughtful expansion of a kind of […]
Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth is told back-and-forth in letters. What inspired this format? What was most challenging about writing a story this way? I have always loved letters, both for what is said and unsaid depending on the receiver, and the way a letter allows the writer to express private thoughts that wouldn’t get said […]
You’ve just plopped down on the bottom bunk with The Little Engine That Could, and cracked it open to start reading to your precious angels. The days have passed when they’d join you in the happy refrain in their singsong mezzo-soprano yodels. Indeed, while they still listen, they now mouth all the words with you, with […]