Barbican Press

Dante was the first poet since ancient Rome to achieve full mastery of a spoken language as a supple medium for conveying complex thought and emotion; and his achievement remains unsurpassed.

Pansy Boy is a stunningly beautiful picture book about a child's journey to overcome bullying and be proud of who he is. Told as rhyming poem, the story comes to life with vivid graphic art. Out in the natural world, a boy is in love with it

221b Baker St., London, early 1890s. For three Victorian slackers—to say nothing of their dog—becoming Sherlock Holmes’s neighbors is very nearly the death of them.