When I think back to the favorite books of my childhood, books whose tang of atmosphere and illustration are still keen in my mind, one of the first I remember is the series of English country tales known as the Brambly Hedge books. These picture books were so intricately illustrated and vividly told that I […]
Book Review: Brambly Hedge
When I think back to the favorite books of my childhood, books whose tang of atmosphere and illustration are still keen in my mind, one of the first I remember is the series of English country tales known as the Brambly Hedge books. These picture books were so intricately illustrated and vividly told that I […]
Brambly Hedge
Editor’s Note: Sarah Clarkson first shared this lovely review here nearly four years ago. In it she spoke of a trip to England, a place she has speant alot of time since. In fact, just a few days ago she was married in Oxford. Sarah Clarkson is now Sarah Fink-Jenson! Everyone at Story Warren wishes our […]
The Gift of an Outdoor Soul
When I was nine years old, my family moved to the middle-of-nowhere, Texas. There, in the hundred-degree heat of my first Texas summer, I made friends with nature. Our new home was a worn, yellow house on two hundred scraggly acres of crackly grass, fields bristling with cedar, and low brown hills occasionally decked in […]
What Hero Are You Going to Be?
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from the intro to Caught Up in a Story, Sarah Clarkson’s book which releases tomorrow! Get that. –Sam —– —– —– “What hero are you going to be?” my brother asked, as if the world depended on my answer. He was golden then, hair like sunlight, eyes […]