SAINT CIARAN

By Gary D. Schmidt

The Great Stone Face

By Gary D. Schmidt

As the years pass and his small village grows, Ethan watches for the fulfillment of the prophecy that someone born looking like the Great Stone Face up on the mountain will be the greatest, noblest...

The Great Stone Face

By Gary D. Schmidt

Robert McCloskey

By Gary D. Schmidt

First boy

By Gary D. Schmidt

Dragged into the political turmoil of a presidential election year, fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for himself and mak...

Hugh Lofting

By Gary D. Schmidt

Katherine Paterson

By Gary D. Schmidt

Katherine Paterson is the consummate storyteller, a crafter of tales in which characters must deal with the most elemental hopes and fears in settings - be it a Chesapeake Bay island or the mountai...

Robert Lawson

By Gary D. Schmidt

Mara's stories

By Gary D. Schmidt

Each evening, in one of the barracks of a Nazi death camp, a woman shares stories that push back the darkness, cold, and fear, bringing hope to the women and children who listen.

The iconography of the Mouth of hell

By Gary D. Schmidt

When the Benedictine Reform movement reached Britain in the ninth century, it brought with it not only monastic reform, but also an enthusiasm for the arts as a way of broadening the appeal of the...