NY: Dutton, (c.1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book (her first was a Caldecott Honor Book), 3 stories set in a world only 8 feet above 1880's Pennslyvania, in a treehouse where 9 year old Emily seeks refuge from her brother's teasing, and from the drudgery of farm life, and where Civil War generals vie with dragons, peddlars with princes. A tribute to the imagination of children, this is a children's book , full of whimsical illustrations by Lloyd Bloom. ISBN: 0-525-456112.