![]() ![]() Twelve-year-old Franny Whitekraft has lived on the farm with her adoptive parents, Sina and Old Tom, ever since she was abandoned on their doorstep as a baby. But the ancient night garden at East Sooke Farm – locus of a family legend involving star-crossed lovers, tragedy, and hauntings – goes one step further: it grants wishes. The garden in Polly Horvath’s latest middle-grade novel follows in this tradition. ![]() ![]() At once intriguing and healing, the best ones quietly become characters in their own right. Children’s literature abounds with magical gardens: from the walled plot that Mary Lennox coaxes back to life in The Secret Garden, to the setting for a time-travelling friendship in Tom’s Midnight Garden, to Oxford’s Botanic Gardens in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. ![]()
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The two eminently readable and impressively scholarly biographies on Truman and Adams may have defined their subjects more than any presidential biographies have defined any two presidents. ![]() Most prominent were his two magisterial presidential biographies, of Harry Truman and John Adams, although he also wrote great works on George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt. McCullough’s link to the presidency manifested in a number of ways. Although he wrote books on a wide variety of subjects, almost always in the realm of American history, he was and will be forever known for his link to the American presidency. McCullough wrote 12 widely read books but wisely avoided a university affiliation, which is one reason his writing was so lively. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough, who died last week at 89, was the preeminent historian of his generation. ![]() |