The Tale Behind Mark Twain's New Fairy Tale, In Bookstores Sept. 26
When veteran children's book author Phillip Stead was asked to write a book from 16 pages of notes scribbled by Mark Twain in the 1880s, he wasn't sure he was up to it. "My first reaction was a little bit of panic," says Stead from his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. "It's not really a job anybody is...