Ten Days in Acadia: A Kids’ Hiking Guide to Mount Desert Island

By Hope Rowan/Art by Jada Fitch

Published by Islandport Press, 2017

McBrine has a dozen carvings in process in his East Machias home shop, all featuring exquisite detail, in his basement workshop. That includes birds and fish—cod, alewives, brown trout, brook trout, bluegill...

Margaret Wise Brown herself is an iconic figure. Beginning in the 1930s she brought an entirely new perspective—that of the young reader or listener—to the writing and publishing of books for children. Good Night Moon—just one example among many...

I didn’t expect to be working on two plays simultaneously, but working with such dedicated actors and crew has been invigorating.

In Maine, April is a flirt, flashing a warm, beckoning smile one day, and spitting snow the next.

As a black man on a largely white coast, and as an artist, not a fisherman, he became a central part of his island community…

Megan Grumbling’s Booker’s Point is a remarkable homage in verse to one Bernard A. Booker, 1922-2008, the “unofficial mayor of Ell Pond, Maine, and finder of gold in quartz.”

At Bunker Cove begins and ends with singing. The opening poem, “A World of Singers,” is an invitation to listen to a particular soundscape...

The pages of The Stone From Halfway Rock should practically reek of salt air and ocean spray, so vividly does author Peter Macdonald Blachly, a writer and musician who lives in Bath.