Adèle Geras is an award-winning British author of numerous volumes of short stories and novels for young adults as well as picture books and chapter books for younger readers. While her picture books deal with largely domestic situations, her works for older readers often treat spookier topics and focus on the family and relationships between individuals. Known for telling tales with strong emotional content, Geras additionally concentrates on the details of daily life in her fiction--on dress, food, and setting. Tales such as My Grandmother's Stories: A Collection of Jewish Folktales and Golden Windows and Other Stories of Jerusalem reflect a childhood spent initially in Jerusalem; other books acknowledge her early years of travel, following her father on his wide-ranging assignments for the British Colonial Service, an experience that had a great influence on her work. Using these experiences of historic Jerusalem, where she was born...