Great novels are often connected-to (or based-on) real-life events. It's fun to search-for (and uncover) those connections. This Collection features fictional stories with real-life tie-ins.
Imagining what it would be like to have alter-ego boys, both aged 9, living on opposite sides of the Auschwitz fence, John Boyne creates a sobering st...
While "The Lorax" is a fictional story, by Dr. Seuss, it contains real-life meaning for today's world.
The much-loved story with a message for both children and adults.
How does Rosanna survive ''the night of the shooting stars?'' A child’s sense of wonder, and the words of a nursery rhyme, help to get her through.
On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air played a prank on the American people.
While Theseus was sailing to Crete, as a Tribute for King Minos and the Minotaur, the monster had a dream.
As his own father had abandoned his mother and her baby, Theseus abandoned his new wife, Ariadne.
Theseus and The Minotaur is a Greek myth about the son of an Athenian king - Theseus - and a horrifying monster - "The Minotaur.
Theseus learned that his father was Aegeus, King of Athens, after he was able to move a heavy rock and discover what was beneath it.
Edgar Allan Poe's tale of The Tell-Tale Heart remains popular. This is an abridged version.
Shakespeare wrote immortal lines for his play, "The Tragedy of King Richard II," including the now-famous phrase: "This royal throne of kings, this sc...
Tiny Tim Cratchit, one of Charles Dickens' characters in "A Christmas Carol," has many physical challenges. Until Christmas Eve, when Scrooge has a gh...
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