"The acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair now gives us the remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there--a vivacious 18-year-old who inspired the man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. In the fall of 1948 Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called "absolutely god-damned wonderful." He was a year shy of his fiftieth birthday...

Illustrations and easy-to-read text demonstrate that bedtime stories are as unique as the parents and children who share them.

"From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its necessities...

Two of America's leading experts on children's books present a unique, definitive, and entertaining guide to quality children's reading--a user-friendly analysis of more than 2,000 books for children from birth to age thirteen. Media tour.

Lists over 400 major authors and illustrators of children's stories from 1800's to present.