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And now for something really exciting!! Last April of 2019, a graduate student at Cambridge emailed asking for permission to include Colonial Voices in her thesis on ‘engaged reading to children in the classroom’. I sent images not seen before and behind the scenes tidbits. Karen’s thesis is 19,948 words. Colonial Voices is featured in… Read more »

Check out this fun and easy project for Raisin and her bucket. A perfect activity for young ones!

Here’s a fun-filled Lion, Lion activity! A board game that’s a busy-time favorite!

This is an engaging storyhour activity for pre-school and young elementary children!  

This story is about Jeb and Mattie, enslaved siblings who escape Harve de Grace, a plantation in Maryland, in 1861. Their route continues through Pennsylvania, where they travel by sea, to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Since I already knew the route they were on, I was able to keep the bulk of the research to a… Read more »

The blog Seven Impossible Things before Breakfast wrote a Valentine’s post featuring myself and my wife, author Miriam Busch. My Valentine to you today is going to be this post, because I’ve got two visitors this morning, and I not only like the book they made together, but I also really enjoyed their conversation and… Read more »

The School Library Journal blog, 100 Scope Notes, wrote about a group of Chicago authors and illustrators (including me!) called The Crusty Nibs. “The Crusty Nibs are a collective of author/illustrators based in the Chicago area including (but not limited to) Stacy Curtis, Larry Day, Chris Sheban, Eric Rohmann, Tom Lichtenheld, Jeff Newman, and Matthew… Read more »