Edmund White Award–winning author Katharine Beutner takes a real-life unsolved mystery and crafts it into an unforgettable historical portrait of academia

and even under the greatest city in the world as they follow leads to the outer boroughs

it is clear (both to the girl and readers) that there is magic all around

And Charisse

dancing when no one is watching

Once There Was: A Picture Book Homeschooling Edmund White Award–winning author KatharineCorinne Demass Once There Was is a simple, modern fable about dreaming of being something else, transformations, and the interconnectedness of all things, featuring whimsical full color illustrations by Gemma Capdevila. In this magical, modern fairy tale, a girl dreams she is a princess. A princess dreams she is a horse. A horse dreams she is a tree, a tree a mountain, a mountain a moon, a moon a sea, a sea a girl. This contemplative story plays on