Author Turns Stories Into Works Of Art

Stories by Eleanor Cameron are a joy to read not only because of their fascinating plots, but because the author doesn’t stop at simply telling a story. She paints it, using words of depth and color to create scenes as skillfully as any artist.

“The Court of the Stone Children” is a beautiful example. It is the story of a lonely girl named Nina who, quite by accident, stumbles upon a museum in a park, discovering rooms full of restless memories within and a courtyard of intriguing marble statues without. Here she meets Dominique, a quiet, eerily beautiful girl who draws Nina into a world of mystery.

Dominique knows of a violent and frightening past, when the museum was a chateau in France and Napoleon waged war with Europe.

As Nina pieces together Dominique’s tales of night visitors, a lost painting, treason and murder, she begins to wonder - who is Dominique? Soon she learns that the answer to her question lies neither in the past nor in the present, but at a point in which the two must meet and merge.

This story is written in passages rich with poetry, exploring dreams and things imagined, and yet remains intensely real.

It’s a book you’ll pick up and not want to put down.