Lady Emma

Lady Emma is a young girl whose adventures lead her to missteps and mistakes. She tumbles and jumbles and falls out of her boat. She falls under a bridge and under a witch's spell. She faces dragons and ogres. As her father guides her gently through life and she finds a prince, she ultimately learns that she must fix-up her own mix-ups before she can find her dreams. This is a story for resilient, self-reliant children of all ages. The character Lady Emma indirectly emerged from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

'Dr. Martha Harrison's Lady Emma is bound to entrance children and adults alike in this inaugural book. Combining her imaginative talents with her knowledge of children's literature, Harrison has created a story that will inspire the next generation of right-brained problem solvers. Bravo! The wonder in this book will amaze and delight readers.'' --Anne V. Gormly, PhD, Dean Emerita, University of Tampa, Vice President Emerita, Georgia College & State University

Dr. Harrison's previous books have all had an academic focus on language play, reading, children's books, and the integration of the arts across the curriculum. She has trained over 2000 teachers in teaching reading and writing to children and young adults in grades K-12 and served as a designer of reading and writing curriculum and assessments for the State Departments of Education in Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida and California.

For the past two decades, her passion for literacy has guided her teaching of children's and young adult literature and her successful authoring and implementation of reading and writing curriculum in education. She is a member of the Association of Children's Literature (AChL) and the International Reading Association (IRA). Her scholarly articles have been published in Florida English Journal, a scholarly journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); The New Advocate, a scholarly journal for those involved with young people and their literature; and the National Education Association Library Series (NEA). She has conducted numerous workshops on comparing the works of Maurice Sendak and Theodor S. Geisel, ''Dr. Seuss''.