For the contemporary reader, this book will perhaps be redolent of the film Il Postino (The Postman), which was set on the Isle of Capri, where the poet lived in exile with his lover, Matilde Urrutia, later his wife. The poems were... Read More

The unforgettable, haunting call of a loon stirs the imagination of a young girl who visits a lake in Maine each summer. Based on the author’s own experience in those verdant woods, the book’s verses are filled with imaginings and... Read More

Little Rabbit should have known better, but he is a very little bunny who is headed for his first day of school. Against his mother’s advice, he decides to take Charlie Horse-a wooden horse on wheels, pulled by a string-with him. Mama... Read More

Mention the Trojan War and the image that comes to most minds is the Trojan Horse. The author-illustrator has taken a lesser-known tale about that war and turned it into a very human adventure, with all the human failings and... Read More

One warm autumn afternoon, the author finds her world turned upside down when she awakes from a nap as usual, but her husband does not. Instead of waking normally, Jack’s return to consciousness is abruptly overshadowed by the sudden... Read More

Normally, a photo might say a thousand words. But with these remarkable photos of Africa, that estimate must be raised considerably. Acebes, a Colombian with a decidedly international upbringing and spirit of adventure to match,... Read More

In this memoir, when the author’s family pull down the barn in 1994, they find a board that dates the structure back a hundred years. The center of her family’s farm, inland from Lake Michigan, the barn is also central to her... Read More

Frank and Joe Hardy have been solving mysteries as teenage detectives since 1926. The Hardy Boys books have sold more than fifty million copies, and new stories are being published today. Even the series’ first three books (The Tower... Read More