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Words in Stone: Gravestone Inscriptions in Books for Children and Young Adults

Words in Stone: Gravestone Inscriptions in Books for Children and Young Adults

by Melanie Scheller | Aug 25, 2023 | 0 comments

I’ve always been intrigued by graveyards, especially those with very old tombstones. I can spend hours wandering through a graveyard, reading the inscriptions on tombstones and looking for clues about the people they commemorate. I even held a séance in a...
Last Words: Dying Words in Books for Children and Young Adults

Last Words: Dying Words in Books for Children and Young Adults

by Melanie Scheller | Aug 11, 2023 | 0 comments

The last words of a book usually appear at the end of the last sentence on the last page, but last words appear much earlier in some books. How is that possible?  It’s because the last words of a dying person — maybe a secret revealed at least or a confession to...

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