Grades 3 to 5
Fun Fact: I have roughly eight pug t-shirts, five pug mugs, four pug pictures, ten pug books, two pug pillows, and one real live pug.
Lindsay had such a hard time naming two of the characters in THE PECULIAR INCIDENT ON SHADY STREET that she ended up choosing names off of Coke bottles in the grocery store! She still has those bottles today.
Fun Fact: My grandfather moonlighted on the ENIAC computer during WW2, the computer featured in CAPE and programmed by the Secret Six women mathematicians.
Fun Fact: Can you guess how many words are in the famous Gettysburg Address the President Lincoln delivered on Nov. 19, 1863 at the cemetery dedication? Only 272 words! Learn more about his GREATEST SPEECH in my picture book, THE SUPERLATIVE A. LINCOLN.
Fun Fact: CAPTAIN SUPERLATIVE by J.S. Puller started its life as a play, before it became a novel. It had its world premiere at a theatre in Waukegan, IL, called the Clockwise Theatre.
Fun Fact: I speak an unknown but distinct language in my sleep, according to two witnesses.
