Childhood is a magical time, a period of wonder and innocence. It's a time when we explore the world with curious eyes and ...

SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day came, and the year died. And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing to drive the dark away. COOPER: (Reading) ...

Somewhere in the middle decades of the 20th century, advanced poetic taste decided that sentimentalism in general, and the sentimentalism of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) in particular, was ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...