Merlin's Booke (25 page)

Signing my Caldecott Medal–winning book
Owl Moon
in 2011.

Reading for an audience at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2012.

Visiting Andrew Lang's gravesite at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew in Scotland in 2011.

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