Scotch Hill Farm. Map by Doug Salati.When I was fourteen years old, I went away to Camp Tamarack near Hinckley, Minnesota. It was a beautiful place, set along the wooded banks of the St. Croix River. I loved it there.Flash forward to this past July. I'm a man of fifty and...

With apologies to Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd. Illustration by Stephen Savage.The PlaceBrooklyn: home to skinny jeans, artisanal pickles, that famous bridge, and yes… one of the biggest children’s book communities in the world. And I’m one of those authors that ends his jacket flap copy with “…lives and...