Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

"The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years of experience from the storytelling experts at The Moth. Over the past twenty-five years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of life-including astronauts, rock stars, Nobel Prize-winners, high school students, dental hygienists, and a retired pickpocket-to develop true personal stories that have moved and delighted millions...

Everyone admires Talia Blanton's frightening stories, in which her friends play starring roles, until the stories start coming true

A school librarian encourages her students to make up stories, and teaches a lesson about bullying in the process.

A Hawaiian grandmother tells her granddaughter a favorite story about how much she loves her, in a story that includes a glossary with definitions and explanations of Hawaiian words and customs.

Bear, with the help of his animal friends, remembers the story he had hoped to tell before the onset of winter.

Errol's mom is too busy to tell him a story. So he has to make up his own. At first, he doesn't know how to tell a story, but when he is joined by a surprising collection of characters (even dinosaurs!), a story begins to grow and grow ... until it's the BIGGEST story ever! A celebration of imagination, packed full of humor, energy and adventure.

"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...

After Eleanor's older sister, Sam, runs away to Seattle, Eleanor goes on adventure looking for her.

When Little Red Chicken comes home excited about what she learned in school, she explains to Papa that every story has "an elephant of surprise."