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Dorothy Elmhirst Straight is an American author who wrote How the World Began in 1962 at the age of 4 for her grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney, making her among the youngest published authors in history.

Hours of Idleness was the first volume of poetry published by Lord Byron, in 1807, when he was 19 years old. It is a collection of mostly short poems, many in imitation of classic Roman poets.

Mattie Stepanek is familiar to millions from his two New York Times best sellers Heartsongs and Journey Through Heartsongs, and his appearances on Oprah, Good Morning America, and many other television and radio shows. In this new book, Mattie writes…

Het Achterhuis is the original Dutch title of The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank. It is a book of writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the…

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

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 This special edition includes a section of previously unpublished poems and artwork.

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…

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…

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

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…