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In the summer of 1816, a young, well-educated woman from England traveled with her lover to the Swiss Alps. Unseasonable rain kept them trapped inside their lodgings, where they entertained themselves by reading ghost stories. At the urging of…

Works by composer, pianist, and violinist written each year of her life between four and fourteen.

Patent 1,505,594 for what became the Popsicle.

Byron's first volume of verse, privately printed in the autumn of 1806.

Jonah Larson taught himself to crochet when he was 5 years old and gained overnight global notoriety. Jonah was born in Ethiopia and adopted as a baby, and he admits he did not always make it easy for his parents. Luckily for him and them, he found…

Make your own domino art wit easy-to-follow directions, colorful dominoes, and accessories.

What interests a child? Is it only chocolates, dolls or the latest gadgets, even mobile phones? Or, is jiving to the latest music videos, being bombarded on music channels day-in-day-out, the only thing they are interested in?
We know the polite…

From the editor's introduction:

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger died in a Nazi SS labor camp on December 17, 1942. She was eighteen. In the course of a life cut short, Selma reached out to the world with poetry,and her words grabbed life, even as the…

A collection of early poems and artwork by poet Mattie J.T. Stepanek. This special edition includes a section of previously unpublished poems and artwork.

A celebration of the beauty and power of crochet - specifically, the life-changing benefits this fiber art has brought to one extraordinary by, the 11-year-old crochet prodigy, Jonah Laron