Tag: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Social Change: Women Writers

Author Catharine M. Sedgwick (1832).
In the mid-late 1800s, Harper & Brothers reprinted several milestone titles in the history of British feminist literature as well as the global canon, such as Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), as well as George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1872). More

Red Scarf Girl

Red Scarf Girl
Searing memoir set during the height of the Cultural Revolution in China. More

Dodger

Dodger
Michael L. Printz Honor Book from bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett; rich with humor and wisdom. More

Ursula Nordstrom

Ursula Nordstrom.
When Anne Carroll Moore, the powerful and opinionated superintendent of children’s work at the New York Public Library, asked Harper & Brothers editor Ursula Nordstrom why she felt qualified to produce children’s books, Nordstrom said only this: “Well, I am a former child, and I haven’t forgotten a thing.” More

The Boy in the Dress

The Boy in the Dress
The sharp and funny first novel for children from bestselling publishing phenomenon David Walliams. More

Stuart Little

Stuart Little
White’s beloved classic about a small mouse on a big adventure is a perennial bestseller. More

Old Yeller

Old Yeller
Instantly acclaimed, it has become one of the most beloved children’s classics ever written. More

Beezus and Ramona

Beezus and Ramona
Newbery Medal winner; humorous and beloved tale of the ups and downs of sisterhood. More

Jacqueline Winspear

I read because I love language, the way the joining of words and the rhythm of a story can make me laugh, cry, or take me out of my world or immerse me in the lives of others. More
Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear

Tessa Duder

This week, I’ve been with Elena Ferrante in Naples, travelling The Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan... More
Tessa Duder

Tessa Duder

Journey to Jo’burg

Journey to Jo’burg
Groundbreaking book set in South Africa during the apartheid era and banned by its government. More

Howl’s Moving Castle

Howl’s Moving Castle
This popular novel stars one of the most beloved and charismatic characters in children’s literature. More

Meg Cabot

I write because of readers like Diana Moreno, who handed me a letter recently telling me that, as the firstborn daughter of immigrants, she felt lonely and shy when she arrived here in 2004 . . . until she found my books. More
Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot

The Butterfly Lion

The Butterfly Lion
A moving story of enduring friendship, this is the award-winning favorite from a master storyteller. More