In Octo­ber 1862, Mary took Tad to New York City. They were gone near­ly a month, vis­it­ing friends and enjoy­ing the com­forts of the city’s

Because of its sub­ject, this essay by Ben does­n’t often appear in his life sto­ry. Writ­ten in 1781, it poked fun at the Roy­al Academy

I thought you might be inter­est­ed in see­ing some of Lod­ner Phillips’ plans for his sub­ma­rine. The first is a sub­ma­rine sketch he did. The second

I remem­ber it clearly—the day the inspi­ra­tion for Papa’s Mechan­i­cal Fish fell in my lap. I was sit­ting cross-legged on the base­ment floor of the

I think it’s cru­cial for young read­ers of both sex­es to see con­fi­dent, pow­er­ful girl characters—girls real­iz­ing their poten­tials, fol­low­ing their pas­sions, buck­ing con­ven­tion, overcoming

Har­vest time is the per­fect time for a Mun­cha! Mun­cha! Mun­cha! Gar­den Sto­ry­time. Hold sto­ry­time right in the garden—amongst the veg­eta­bles and flow­ers. Don’t forget–there are

As for the [quotes Imo­gene spouts], well, I do know a few peo­ple from our past pret­ty well – Eleanor Roo­sevelt, Abra­ham Lin­coln, Amelia Earhart,

Not long ago I was speak­ing with a group of teach­ers about Imogene’s Last Stand. “Is the book auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal?” one of them asked. I was stumped.

Dur­ing my sopho­more year in high school, on our way back from the home­com­ing dance, my boyfriend of three whole weeks—Doug Cougill—broke up with me;

Rasputin cer­tain­ly played an impor­tant role in the Romanov’s down­fall. But I’m not sure their sto­ry would have turned out dif­fer­ent­ly if the monk hadn’t