Writer in Residence Sarah Ellis

After my first month as writer in residence at the lovely Osborne Collection I'm reminded of what a variety of writing comes under the general umbrella of "children's and young adults'." Among the submitted manuscripts I've seen time travel, the rich setting of a hair salon, narrative poetry, a polar adventure, picture books texts along a wide continuum of naturalistic and fantasy, a story of magic wishes, a couple of memorable dogs, some illustrations, a tall tale, fables, angst in a shopping mall, a family memory morphing into a piece of fiction, homage to classic motorcycles and some narrative non-fiction. This is a capacious umbrella to be sure.
Umbrellas: I'm thinking of Mary Poppins's parrot-handled umbrella. What other umbrellas have made their mark in fiction? Taro Yashima's lovely 1958 picture book Umbrella, to be sure, and Edward Gorey's The Sopping Thursday. There must be one in Carl Sandburg somewhere, wouldn't you think? Nominations?