For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on ...

SIMON: For more than 40 years, people have been reading and performing Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day" to celebrate the winter solstice. COOPER: (Reading) And when the New Year's sunshine ...

They hung their homes with evergreen. They burned beseeching fires all night long to keep the year alive. SIMON: For more than 40 years, people have been reading and performing Susan Cooper's poem ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...