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Little Books of the Little Brontës, The

Sarah O'Leary

Illustrator: Briony May Smith

Ages: 6+

Published: 2023

Publisher: Tundra Books/Penguin Random House

ISBN: 978-0-7352-6369-7

Keywords: childhood, authors,creativity

Four young siblings loved stories and wrote their own match-box size books, and then grew up to be famous British authors. Painterly illustrations. Time line, author's note, sources.