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

It starts with a low rumble. As the noise grows louder, I shade my eyes and look up at the blue sky. Overhead, the roar approaches and...

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...

First Freedom: Escape into the Night She prayed that the night would be kind. Touching her daughter's shoulder one last time, her...

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

Discovering Narnian Treasure I walked into the fragrance of a hundred Christmas trees. On my way to my cluster mailbox about a half-mile...

It always surprised Grace Darling to emerge from the shelter of a walled garden to a world exploding with gray light. She looked up at...

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

Freedom at Dawn Susan La Flesche glanced out her window at the Nebraskan prairie as she finished braiding her long black hair....

Clutching a coin in her hand, young Bessie Coleman hurried out the front door of her home in Waxahachie, Texas. She tightened her...

Nothing is quite so effortlessly haunting as a painting veiled in mystery. Portraits have been the focus of many evocative films and...

I'm trying to remember the name of a Star Trek episode. The plot features a civilization desperate to hear new stories, and then the...

A lone figure walked along the beach after a fierce storm. With her long skirt twisting in the steady wind, she put up a hand to keep her...

The sound of cheering mixed with the emphatic tapping of typewriter keys. Seated at a small table, surrounded by the cheerful noise of...

Like Alice's adventures through the looking-glass, Emily Dickinson's life is full of contradictions and illusions. I knew very little...

On an early spring day, Lucy Maud Montgomery felt a chill when she opened the door to the clothes room. Although the frost had started to...

Once upon a time, a shy little girl sat reading at her desk in a combined fifth and sixth grade classroom. Bright sunshine filtered...