Liz Rosenberg
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Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, "I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud's personal life. Her childhood was spent with...
4) Monster mama
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Patrick Edward's fierce monster mother helps him deal with some obnoxious bullies.
9) The carousel
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Two sisters find that the horses of a broken carousel have come alive in the rain.
11) This is the wind
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Sing-song verse and rich illustrations enhance a lovely tale about the miracle of bringing a baby into the world as experienced by a human mother and mouse mother on the same windy night on a quiet country farm.
12) Moonbathing
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A young girl relishes the magical atmosphere of the beach at night when she goes for a moonlit stroll with her older cousin.
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"Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father's failed utopian commune, the benefits of an unmarried life, and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her family's poverty. Her first literary success was a contemporary close-up account of the American Civil War, brilliantly depicted...