homes and haunts

Author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school in 1941 when he was a boy.

A bilingual story in English and Spanish in which the author recalls his childhood in the mountains and valleys of California with his Mexican-American migrant farmworker parents who inspired him with poetry and song.

A memoir in which children's author Tomie De Paola recalls his baby sister's frightening bout with pneumonia, and the exciting events of the summer between kindergarten and first grade.

An illustrated guide to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello vegetable garden, which has been restored to contain the same plants cultivated in the early nineteenth century, exploring topics ranging from labor in the garden, garden pests of the time, and seed saving practices to contemporary African American gardens.

In March 1845, Henry David Thoreau set out; to live life in a new way and Walden is a record of his experiment in simple living.

Examines the realities of life in Elizabethan and Jacobean times through a selection of accounts taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries, and pamphlets by and about the contemporaries of playwright William Shakespeare.

A detailed biography of the life and exploits of Rudyard Kipling during his younger years between 1865 and 1900, describing his troubles, years in India, and move to London as a young man.

An alphabet book that contains black-and-white illustrations that showcase aspects of naturalist Henry David Thoreau's time at Walden Pond in New England, with discussion of how things have changed over the years.

Photographs and text offer a room-by-room tour of the house of Beatrix Potter, the author who created Peter Rabbit.