Friday, May 3, 2024
“On a bright December morning long ago, two thinly clad children were kneeling upon the bank of a frozen canal in Holland.” Thus begins the tale of the life of a small Dutch family that has been told and retold for over a century. Amazingly, the story that illustrates so […]
Dear Readers of CLAY: Heyyy! =D This month’s Beyond the Pages column shall address the life and writing of the one and only L. Frank Baum!!!!! Prepare yourselves for lions, tigers, bears and many more. (oh my!) Of course, this phrase, like the ruby red slippers and the saying, “There’s […]
“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” Imagine it. Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States during the Civil War, meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Though the accuracy of this quote is speculative, Stowe’s famous book surely had […]
“Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale!” Fanny Stevenson must have looked at her husband like he was insane at these bewildering words. Robert Louis Stevenson had been screaming in horror in his sleep, and only with good intentions did Fanny rouse him from his […]
“Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks—which seemed to the family AGES!” This family was the Dickens household. The room was in Charles Dickens’ own house, in which Hans Christian Andersen was invited to stay for two weeks. Charles Dickens, a well-known contemporary author during the Victorian era, […]