The sole possession of two orphans, Olya and her little brother Sacha, is their mother's sewing machine, an heirloom whose magical properties save the day when they find themselves in the employ of a mean and miserly mistress....
Madison is out playing in her yard when she happens upon a piece of rope. Determined to find out just where the rope leads, she and her little black cat follow the line of the rope. They zig and zag and shimmy-shammy from one dance step to the next, ...
It is a day in June, and the old woman is sitting on her porch with her cat. She has fallen asleep and is dreaming of her man, who was lost at sea. When she wakes up, the old woman is smiling. She goes to the quilt she is making and cuts new pieces o...
This is the 50th anniversary of "Tobias and his Big Red Satchel", published by Alfred Knopf and my first children's book, . Tobias has a satchel filled with the 'terribly usable' things he must have at hand every day as he rescues animals and people ...