American Masters – Janis: Little Girl Blue premieres nationwide Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at 8/7c on PBS (check local schedule) as part of the 30th anniversary season of THIRTEEN’s American ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Alice Franklin's new novel is a story told by an often-lonely little girl in the south of England who doesn't seem to see the world or hear its sounds or speak and think in the ...

Little Girl Blue is also a bold play on non-fiction storytelling, returning time and again to Mona herself, surrounded by archive material – boxes, photos, letters – and in the company of the ...

Bridie Sweeney, the narrator of Emma Carroll’s THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL STRIKES BACK (Candlewick, 208 pp., $19.99, ages 8 to 12), has no use for Andersen’s version.