A Storyteller’s Life
…master’s degree in education, China was still closed to missionaries, so Paterson took a post in Japan instead. Later, while her four children were young, she began a writing career…
…master’s degree in education, China was still closed to missionaries, so Paterson took a post in Japan instead. Later, while her four children were young, she began a writing career…
…essays and emails written by Mr. Browne’s former students. These voices add another dimension to Wonder and sometimes reveal the answers to mysteries in the novel, although spoilers are kept…
…unique and universal. Intertwining her own memories with stories told by friends and relatives, she is able to write about episodes that she was too young to remember herself but…
…several popular series and stand-alone titles. In 2008 he served as the first U.S. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor is the first book…
…books for children reflect these theories, often by questioning and sometimes even subverting the principles espoused at the time. In bestselling children’s books, badly-behaved children (or their animal surrogates) often…
…to grasp the family’s change in circumstances. She was raised for genteel helplessness and doesn’t acknowledge that her daughters wear themselves out so the trio can survive. “We are ladies,…