My husband and I looked down at our sad miniature rose. "I don't think it's going to make it," Peter said. When Peter gave me the little...

How do memories transform creativity and imagination? For artist and poet Kate Greenaway, childhood memories created a swirl of color,...

The Possibilities of a Handwritten Name Sunlight streamed into the children's room as the librarian handed my older sister her first...

What can the height of a table tell you? If you walked into a special children's library of long ago, a small table could tell you a...

On a cool autumn evening in Chicago, Christie Edwards faces a life-altering decision. She is attending an awards ceremony at the 1893...

Cinderella's fairy godmother created glass slippers with just a flick of her wand. She would have needed to work overtime, however, to...

Driving down the highway, I'm always intrigued when a moving house rolls by me. Propped on the back of a trailer-truck, with a sign...

A Shimmering World of Illusion One of the delights of writing historical mysteries is the ability to explore different times and imagine...