A fictionalized account of the events of the day in 1656 that the Spanish princess Margarita first saw the painting of herself by Diego Velasquez entitled "Las Meninas.".
Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.
Relates the story of how the Second Assistant Rotisserie Turner at the court of King Louis XIV of France becomes the First Assistant Bearer of the King's Dog.
Despite the derision of their neighbors, a young French boy and his family befriend the lonely painter who comes to their town and begin to admire his unusual paintings.
A fatherless white boy, who shares with an old black man an enthusiasm for Jackie Robinson, takes a ball autographed by Jackie to his elderly friend's death bed.
A fictionalized episode from the life of Anne Hutchinson, who arrived with her family in Massachusetts in 1634, but was soon banished for holding religious meetings and teaching ideas with which Puritan ministers disagreed.
Time travelers Joe, Fred, and Samantha inspire General George Washington during the winter of 1776 to carry out a surprise attack on Hessian troops in Trenton, New Jersey, that will eventually change the course of the Revolutionary War.
