As a young girl, Emily Dickinson loved to scribble curlicues, dream up rhymes, and explore the natural world around her in Massachusetts. The sounds, sights, and smells of home swirled through her mind, and Emily began to write and rhyme her thoughts and impressions. Thinking about the real and the unreal, she perhaps found poems to be something in-between. World Fantasy Award winner and prolific children's book author Jane Yolen gives readers up to 8 an evocative portrait of a young Emily, set with lovely watercolors.