His­to­ry is every­where. I love small towns with big sto­ries. Cheshire, MA, had a big sto­ry I wrote a pic­ture book about.  Check it out!

By 1905, the work­ing class [in Rus­sia] had begun envi­sion­ing a bet­ter life. And these visions began with books. “When I came in from work,

I have three pic­ture books specif­i­cal­ly about babies (okay, one is about baby birds). Put them togeth­er and you have a the­mat­ic sto­ry time all

Nowa­days, most muse­ums are large pub­lic insti­tu­tions cre­at­ed for the pur­pose of edu­cat­ing peo­ple about spe­cif­ic areas of inter­est such as art, sci­ence, and natural

In the spring of 1914, court gos­sips began whis­per­ing about an engage­ment between eigh­­teen-year old Olga and Prince Car­ol of Roma­nia. Why else, they speculated,

Dur­ing Nicholas’s reign, Rus­sia used the old-style Julian cal­en­dar to record dates, when most of the rest of the world was using the new-style Gregorian

What’s inter­est­ing about pho­to­graph research is that the “good” pho­tos aren’t always the “best” pho­tos. I’m con­stant­ly search­ing for pic­tures read­ers haven’t seen time and

The scene of Romanov family’s mur­ders was horrific—you can read the grim details in the last chap­ters of the book. One of the inter­est­ing and

The ruler of Rus­sia is called the tsar or emper­or (the titles are inter­change­able); his wife is either the tsar­it­sa or empress; and his male

Hunger forced many Russ­ian peas­ants, includ­ing chil­dren and old peo­ple, to beg from their neigh­bors. They felt ashamed. But there was no help for it.