How do memories transform creativity and imagination? For artist and poet Kate Greenaway, childhood memories created a swirl of color,...

What I'll Never Know Have you ever browsed in a used bookstore and wondered about an inscription? I still remember one I found inside a...

The Possibilities of a Handwritten Name Sunlight streamed into the children's room as the librarian handed my older sister her first...

When L. M. Montgomery published Anne's House of Dreams in 1917, she was far from home. She lived 1,675 km from Prince Edward Island. In...

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need . — Cicero Lush gardens and books are delights that never grow old. The...

For those who love reading, the busy December holidays can be a challenge. No matter what the season, book lovers always find a few...

Autumn on Prince Edward Island My husband and I started out married life in an apartment near the University of California, Berkeley....

My husband and I can never resist a sign that reads “Library Book Sale.” On an autumn afternoon filled with brilliant colors and...

After a week of what we call "Junuary" in the Pacific Northwest—a week filled with cloudy gray skies—I woke up to the summer sun...

What can the height of a table tell you? If you walked into a special children's library of long ago, a small table could tell you a...

A Story Without an End Have you heard this beautiful song , a favorite of mine, performed by teacher and musician Earl Grant? As the...

Discovering Narnian Treasure I walked into the fragrance of a hundred Christmas trees. On my way to my cluster mailbox about a half-mile...

Please welcome Mary Elizabeth Brown, our guest blogger today. Mary is a musician and writer who is currently working on an historical...

I'm pleased to welcome my first guest blogger, Susan Monk Kannard. Susan has extensive experience as a Reading Specialist and has...

The heady scent of wisteria mixed with orange blossoms in spring. .. When I opened my window as a child, those are the fragrances that...

A lone figure walked along the beach after a fierce storm. With her long skirt twisting in the steady wind, she put up a hand to keep her...

The sound of cheering mixed with the emphatic tapping of typewriter keys. Seated at a small table, surrounded by the cheerful noise of...

It began with a small painting. As legend tells it, Samuel Clemens saw a miniature of Olivia Langdon when he met her brother, Charles,...

Like Alice's adventures through the looking-glass, Emily Dickinson's life is full of contradictions and illusions. I knew very little...

On an early spring day, Lucy Maud Montgomery felt a chill when she opened the door to the clothes room. Although the frost had started to...