Central Kansas Library System

Culled from the author's memories of growing up in a small town in northern Minnesota in the 1940s and 1950s, these recollections show how Gary and his friends had to make their own fun, from hang gliding to wrestling with a bear.

Recounts the life story of the author of the "Little House" books, from her childhood in Wisconsin to her old age at Rocky Ridge Farm.

While describing her humorous adventures with a blacksnake, Betsy Byars recounts childhood anecdotes and explains how she writes a book.

The story of a bedraggled white feline who came for Christmas and took over the heart of Cleveland Amory.

Provides information about the childhood, education, and career of children's book author R. L. Stine, creator of the Goosebumps series and other scary stories.

A collection of children's poems by African American poet Effie Lee Newsome.