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Linda Borromeo
- 6 min
Kate Greenaway: Staying True to Your Own Style
How do memories transform creativity and imagination? For artist and poet Kate Greenaway, childhood memories created a swirl of color,...
Linda Borromeo
- 3 min
When a Picture is Worth a Thousand (or More) Words
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...
Linda Borromeo
- 4 min
In Her Own Hand: What Book Treasures Came to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
The Possibilities of a Handwritten Name Sunlight streamed into the children's room as the librarian handed my older sister her first...
Linda Borromeo
- 5 min
Is Captain Jim's Lighthouse Real? Discover L.M. Montgomery's Lighthouse of Dreams
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...
Linda Borromeo
- 3 min
A Spring Tour of Beloved Literary Gardens
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...