Melissa Sweet

In 1894, Charlotte records in a journal her impressions of a family trip from Giverney, France to New York, where her father's paintings will be featured in an exhibition. Includes biographical sketches of painters and reproductions of artworks.

Profiles twenty-six authors with original and distinctive approaches to literature and language, from a man who used vanity license plates to tell stories and a woman who made new poems by subtracting letters from published works to people who studied word origins and variations. Fleischman profiles twenty-six authors with original and distinctive approaches to literature and language. From a man who used vanity license plates to tell stories and...

A mother and son remember all the wonderful things they did together that day as the little boy falls asleep for the night.

Describes in verse the sights, smells, sounds, and activities of spring.

A collection of verses selected from earlier books by Charlotte Zolotow.

In this final book in the Monster of the Month Club quartet, thirteen-year-old Rilla tries to maintain secrecy regarding the monster toys which arrive and come to life.

A nineteenth-century American girl journals her trip to London where she meets famous painters like John Singer Sargeant, learns about art, and more.

It’s 1895. Charlotte and her American family came to France three years ago so her father could learn to paint in the French Impressionist style. Now Charlotte and her parents are traveling to London to see if the famous—and very busy—artist John Singer Sargeant will

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