Rebecca M Walsh

How The Tiny People Grew Tall: An Original Creation Tale

How the Tiny People Grew Tall: An Original Creation Tale

Inspired by the indigenous creation myths, Nancy Wood's fanciful tale is brought to life with rich, humorous paintings by Rebecca Walsh.A long time ago, when everything was new, the Tiny People lived in the Center of the Earth. It was hot and crowded."Let's get out of here," says the smallest and b...

The Well at the End of the World

Princess Rosamond isn't your typical princess. She prefers good books to good looks and keeps both the royal accounts and the castle drawbridge in working order. When her greedy stepmother and stepsister scheme to spend the royal treasury and her father, the king, falls ill, Rosamond must set out in...

The Girl Who Wanted to Dance

The call to self expression haunts a delicate, poignant tale about family and art, love and longing — and the ineffable tie between parent and child.Clara lives with her father and grandmother in a little village. More than anything, Clara loves to dance, but her father has had too much sadness in h...

The Book of the Dead

A shimmer at the end of a corridor. Lights in a graveyard long after the witching hour. Is that the wind, or something calling out to the living from secret, unseen places? The mysteries of the supernatural have captivated the human imagination for centuries. Tales of specters, hauntings, and unexpl...

The Geopoetics of Modernism

“Takes an exciting new approach by reading modernism alongside geographical theorists as well as periodicals such as National Geographic. A provocative and revealing account of American modernist poetry in light of the recent ‘spatial’ turn in literary studies.”—Andrew Thacker, coeditor of Geographi...