Owl and the Pussycat

Edward Lear was a writer and artist whose work often featured nonsense verse and whimsical illustrations. He's best known for his collections of limericks and his charming book, The Poetry of Cats. If you enjoy playful poems and a touch of the absurd, you'll find a lot to love in his writing.

With over forty one million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful p...