Patricia Clark Smith – författare

There was nothing Isabella loved more than spending time working in the garden with her grandmother. At five years old, she thought Grandma Pat had the most beautiful garden in the world. As you read The Garden Party, you will understand how Isabella discovered the imaginative world of garden fairies. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Albert EinsteinA portion of the proceeds form the sale of The Garden Party will be donated to local food banks.

The Strawberry Promise is a delightful story about little Isabellas family tradition of picking strawberries each June and making strawberry jam. At four years old, Isabella could not wait for her mother, grandmother, and two aunts to meet at the Pickn Patch, pick quarts of strawberries, and bring them home to make strawberry jam together. Hearing about the threat of rain, Isabella worries that the strawberry picking and jamming will be cancelled. Children and adults will enjoy reading about the making of jam using freshly picked strawberries, putting the jam into sterilized jars to preserve for the winter, and the tradition Isabella inherited from her mother, grandmother, aunts, great grandmother, and great-great-grandmother started over a century ago on the Twomey family farm in Calverton, Long Island, New York.

Baiting Hollow: A Pastel Summer is a memoir-fantasy which takes place in July 2011 during Barbara,Brigid, and Aunt Clare''s two week summer vacation at a small bungalow on Baiting Hollow beach.Throughout the story the reader will enjoy descriptions of the natural beauty of the beach, the friendshipsand generational ties among neighbors and relatives, and the peace and fun of this small beachcommunity. Readers will also be enchanted by storyteller, Kevin O''Connell''s description of hisencounter with the Twomey banshee and the vision she shared with him one snowy evening.