The Lonely Book

Shelf wear to DW and a tear in the spine. Covered in mylar by bookshop.
The book loved to be read, and children like you would often check it out. but in time, the book became old and worn. It was no longer pulled excitedly off the shelf - until one day, a little girl found the lonely book, opened its shabby cover and began to read...

KATE BERNHEIMER is the author of the picture book The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Her most recent book for adults are Horse, Flower, Bird, a collection of stories, and The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold, the third novel in a fairy-tale trilogy. A fairy tale expert, she is the editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me; Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales; and Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men in Fairy Tales. She is currently a professor of English at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette.