We have finished the altered book about some of our favorite authors. It was a nice exercise--like a refresher course in literature as we dug through web sites and our meager collection of books for ideas. Each author was given a picture, a copy of his or her signature (except for the Brontes because they were too many), an excerpt from a quote, and some related imagery. Here is Mark Twain's page. He is one of the most quoted, or over-quoted authors, but I thought this one suited the Huckleberry imagery: The work I have done I have done because it was play. The Edgar Allan Poe page is more macabre with burgundy instead of a pastoral green. John Steinbeck's page is a little more industrial with hardware and a bit of rusted window screen over the classic Depression era photo of the poverty-stricken woman with her children. How many prepositional phrases can I squeeze into one sentence? Cannery row sits below his free-hanging photo. Charles Dickens' main theme of the disparit...