Song of I Am is a poetic and artistic journey through the chasm of the universe and the beauty of our natural world, the spirit of humankind and our soul. Both poet and artist ask the heart's most deeply moving questions and outline the soul's unending search for truth and understanding. This is a book of more than one-hundred poems paired with art that reaches into the mind and heart, stirring memories and calling up images out of the past, inspiring new feelings and images. Song of I Am is a lifetime of award-winning poetry by author Jeanette M. Dodge paired with art by her daughter Mary P....

Honored with the 2011 Moonbeam Children's Book Award, this book won the Silver Medal in young adult fiction, historical/cultural. Seventeen-year old Sarah James receives a secret key at her Great Grandmother Rose Chandler's deathbed where she is told to unlock a hidden room. In the mysterious room, she finds an antique mirror with a spell. The mirror pulls her into the past where she relives her grandmother's life as a young pre-Civil War woman, who built a cotton plantation and raised a family with Hugh Chandler. The Chandler family history continues to unfold decades later when Sarah's twin...