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A Room of Your Own: A Story Inspired by Virginia Woolf's Famous Essay

Beth Kephart

From award-winning creators--author Beth Kephart and artist Julia Breckenreid--A Room of Your Own is a picture book about the places we go to create, inspired by Virginia Woolf and her noted essay.

Sometimes Virginia Woolf wrote her stories in a garden shed. Sometimes she wrote them among stacks of books in a cool basement. And you? Where do you go to think, to dream, to be? The shade beneath a tall tree? The brick step on a city stoop? The cozy spot beneath the kitchen table? Or inside the night's deep dark? Not all rooms require four walls and a roof.

Inspired by the writer Virginia Woolf and her celebrated essay, "A Room of One's Own," A Room of Your Own is about the importance of claiming a space for oneself.

"Colorful watercolors in spot art and larger scenes depict diverse girls and boys under a tree, on a neighborhood sidewalk, at the kitchen table, under a bedsheet fort, and in more spaces." --Kirkus Reviews

"Together, images and text combine for an unequivocal ode to the necessity of being oneself, and of having time alone." --Publishers Weekly

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
  • Publish Date: Aug 9th, 2022
  • Pages: 32
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 10.82in - 9.35in - 0.44in - 0.92lb
  • EAN: 9781951836382
  • Recommended age: 04-08
  • Categories: Imagination & PlaySocial Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-RelianceGirls & Women

About the Author

Kephart, Beth: - Beth Kephart is an award-winning author of over thirty books for adults, young adults, and children, including And I Paint It, published by Cameron Kids, and the forthcoming A Room of Your Own: Virginia Woolf and Where We Go to Think, Dream, and Be. She lives in Pennsylvania.

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Praise for this book

"Colorful watercolors in spot art and larger scenes depict diverse girls and boys under a tree, on a neighborhood sidewalk, at the kitchen table, under a bedsheet fort, and in more spaces."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"Together, images and text combine for an unequivocal ode to the necessity of being oneself, and of having time alone."-- "Publishers Weekly"