Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life.

Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books like his classic The Cat in the Hat. This biography, with black-and-white illustrations throughout, brings an amazingly gifted author/illustrator to life.

The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson.

The acclaimed author offers reminiscences of her childhood growing up on a farm in Portland, recalling experiences at home and at school, her special friends, her relationship with her mother, and her discovery of the wonder of books.

An introduction to the life, times, and works of the celebrated 19th-century American author. "A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the...

Fictionalized biography of the boyhood and youth of a great, great nephew of John Paul Jones who, after his boyhood on the frontier, grew up to be an inventor, novelist, and statesman.

A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books.

Skunks, woodchucks, a crow named Poe, an 18-foot, half-finished canoe in the living room...welcome to the North home! Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home to loin the menagerie, but soon raccoon and boy are best friends.

Author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a writer.

The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.