Deep Valley Confidential

In some of her writing notes Maud Hart Lovelace discusses the way her friend Midge Gerlach - the inspiration for Tib - saw Maud and their o...

There are certain writers that I think I love because when I reread their books from my teen years they TAKE ME BACK! These are the books...

But not in a creepy way. Of course. When TEX came out I was 13 - the same age as Jamie Collins! And I did have it bad for Tex. He was a ba...

This summer I went to the University of Minnesota and looked at Maud's papers in the Kerlan Collection.  There was so much, and I go...

Illustration by Lois Lenski, annotation by MHL, designed by Julia Nephew. First of all, Betsy Tacy friends are everywhere. I was loo...

FARMER BOY by Laura Ingalls Wilder illustrated by Garth Williams (1933) and EDDIE AND HIS BIG DEALS WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRARED BY CAROLYN H...

JOURNEY TO AN 800 NUMBER by E. L. Konigsburg [1982] MARY'S STAR by Wilma Pitchford Hays [1968] E.L. Konigsburg ...

ON THE BANKS OF PLUM CREEK by Laura Ingalls Wilder [1937] STEPPING ON THE CRACKS by Mary Downing Hahn [1991] So let's begin wi...

THE SHRINKING OF TREEHORN by Florence Parry Heide illustrated by Edward Gorey (1971) and THUMBELINA by Hans Christian Anderson illustrated ...

There is no way this book could have been published today. Emma, the main character refers to her younger brother as a "faggot" ...