Late and dark, one summer midnight, the doorbell rang, one solitary “DING-DONG“. Upstairs I sat alone glancing through the ever-so-sophisticated pages of a children’s picture book. The audible jarring of […]

I thank God for the Middle Ages, as that long distant, turbulent, and shadowy period of history is so unimaginatively labeled, not because it kept civilization alive, and Christianity alive […]

—– The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World by Edward Lear —–   —–   —– Once upon a time, a long while ago, there […]

This is taken from Mrs. Clifford’s Very Short Stories and Verses For Children, first published in 1886. It has a moral, yes, like much of Victorian children’s literature. It also […]