Angeli, Marguerite Lofft de. Butter at the Old Price: The Autobiography of Marguerite de Angeli. New York: Doubleday, 1971. Angeli's own account of her life and career as an illustrator and writer. Contains much fascinating information about her early life and her struggle to balance her professional ambitions with the demands of her family.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron.

Edited and translated by Mark Musa and Peter E. Bondanella. New York:

W. W. Norton, 1977. The opening of Boccaccio's fourteenth-century work provides the fullest and best of the contemporary accounts of the Black Death. For mature high school students interested in studying the effects of the plague on the inhabitants of Europe, pages 3-11 in this text are recommended.

Burnett, David. The Cranborne Chase.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981.

This historical novel, set in almost exactly the same period as The Door in the Wall, is the work of...