Just before the final bell rang, I dashed around the room. “I hope you can all come to my party!” I slapped an envelope down on each...

I wrote this piece for a course I took with the Institute of Children’s Literature. The assignment was to create a 500-to-750-word story...

I love to sit on the floor and pull a pile of picture books off the shelf to enjoy. The ones I really want to savor, I end up taking home...