About the Author

Phyllis Saroff is an artist whose work has appeared in books and magazines and her paintings of wildlife are used in outdoor displays in wildlife management areas across the country. She lives in Annapolis, MD.Time and the Tapestry is John Plotz's first children's book. He teaches English at Brandeis University and is the author of two scholarly books about Victorian literature, The Crowd and Portable Property. He rereads The Hobbit, Huck Finn, and A Wizard of Earthsea every year, and is now at work on a young adult novel about Mark Twain. He and his wife live in Brookline, MA, along with two daughters and four chickens.

Reviews

Do you like dragons? Would you like to ride on the back of a talking bird? Or travel in time to unlock the mystery of a great treasure? Beautiful, puzzling, illuminating, Time and the Tapestry is fit for a scholar but as fresh as a daisy. -- Roland Chambers, author of The Last Englishman and The Rooftop Rocket Party

Lyrical. Beautiful. Magical. It's a marvelous book. -- Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians and The Magician King

Remember Ellen Raskin's The Westing Game? E. L. Konigsburg's Mixed-Up Files? Kit Williams's Masquerade? Brainy, kinetic, and bursting with vim, Time and the Tapestry is an arresting puzzle-novel and rousing quest tale of two children zooming through history on the back of a giant talking blackbird: what's not to love? -- Ellis Avery, author of The Last Nude and The Teahouse Fire