Bessie Potter Vonnoh's statue in the Burnett Fountain in Central Park's Conservatory Garden depicts Dickon and Mary from the book "The Secret Garden".
Another writer I've been re-reading recently is novelist and academic Alison Lurie (1926-2020), whose essays on children's literature I sometimes love and sometimes argue with, but always find interesting. Here, for example, is a passage from "Enchanted Forests and Secret...
For more than 100 years, Frances Hodgson Burnett's tales have endured. Cedric Errol, otherwise known as Little Lord Fauntleroy, is still a quintessential rags-to-riches story. Sara Crewe of The Little Princess taught us that people will always be…
For more than 100 years, Frances Hodgson Burnett's tales have endured. Cedric Errol, otherwise known as Little Lord Fauntleroy, is still a quintessential rags-to-riches story. Sara Crewe of The Little Princess taught us that people will always be…
For more than 100 years, Frances Hodgson Burnett's tales have endured. Cedric Errol, otherwise known as Little Lord Fauntleroy, is still a quintessential rags-to-riches story. Sara Crewe of The Little Princess taught us that people will always be…
