Beth Kephart

A picture book about the places we go to create, inspired by Virginia Woolf and her noted essay. Sometimes Virginia Woolf wrote her stories in a garden shed. Sometimes she wrote them among stacks of books in a cool basement. And you? Where do you go to think, to dream, to be? The shade beneath a tall tree? The brick...

Beth Kephart is a writing teacher and the award-winning author of more than thirty books. Her many fans and students will embrace this intimate and beautiful memoir in essays. The author's books on how to write memoir, as well as previous memoirs, have built a strong platform for Wife | Daughter | Self. Eleven of the chapters have been published...

A poetic picture-book biography about artist N.C. Wyeth's daughter, Henriette, a talented painter in her own right. And I think of the girl I am and the girl I'll be: A painter, like Pa. An actress (maybe). A fairy with wings. A father and daughter sneak away from their big, busy family to paint in the wild landscape. Together, they...

William Morris is best known for his colourful wallpapers and textiles, inspired by the English forests and wild foliage where he grew up. But did you know this icon of the Arts and Crafts Movement was also a poet, a painter, a preservationist, an activist, an environmentalist, and a maker of many other beautiful useful things, like books? Beautiful Useful...