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Review of The Library of Unruly Treasures

The Library of Unruly Treasures by Jeanne Birdsall; illus. by Matt PhelanIntermediate, Middle School    Knopf    352 pp.8/25    9780525579045    $17.99Library ed.  9780525579052    $20.99e-book ed.  9780525579069    $10.99Eleven-year-old Gwen MacKinnon—neglected, unwanted, shuttled between self-centered parents—has been sent to stay with her great uncle Matthew near Boston. There she discovers that the town’s library...
      

Jeanne Birdsall Talks with Roger

Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by   With The Library of Unruly Treasures, Jeanne Birdsall steps away from her much-loved Penderwicks novels to try something new to her pen but beloved in her reading memory: fantasy,...
      

On Rachael Stein's "The Penderwicks on Hayward Street" (from May 2013)

"We owe a permanent debt of gratitude to Jeanne Birdsall. Her words are the refiner’s fire that helped turn our leaden hearts to gold."In her Books in the Home column, "The Penderwicks on Hayward Street," from the May/June 2013 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, librarian and mom Rachael Stein...
      

Spring 2015 Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Jeanne Birdsall

This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2015 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Spring Publishers’ Preview, a semiannual advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions.Sponsored byThe Penderwicks in Spring is...
      

Books in the Home: The Penderwicks on Hayward Street

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Middle grade fiction saved Jeanne Birdsall's life. Here's how Birdsall's Penderwicks books helped save two of her fans.The first time we listened to The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, we were fleeing Hurricane Irene. Traffic was backed up on the road out of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and I was running out...
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