THE WEATHER'S TURNED CHILLY, the neighbors' houses are bedecked with porch pumpkins, and it's school visit season. Since I wrote to you - and it's been WAY too long, I know - my Scottie, Maude, died. She surely was a good old dog. I even miss lugging her up and down the stairs. Her legs were too short to climb them on her own.

 I've been meeting people who've read and cried over my first novel, JUST FOR YOU TO KNOW. When this book isn't funny, it's awfully sad. Man oh man oh man, if you haven't read it, please do. You won't be sorry!

The National Geographic is just now publishing the 4th in our series of eight "Cheryl Harness Histories": The Trailblazing Life of DANIEL BOONE & How Early AMERICANS Took to the ROAD. After that, be watching for No. 5, a book about botanist GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER + American science, inquiry, & invention. No. 6 will be about our country's customs and stories that make up American Folklore. The book will also be a biography of author/traveler/diplomat WASHINGTON IRVING who wrote about Rip Van Winkle & the Headless Horseman (not in the same story - interesting idea though, huh?) No. 7: showman PHINEAS T. BARNUM & a history of entertainment; No. 8: DOLLEY MADISON & THE YOUNG REPUBLIC. I'm learning so much about our country writing and illustrating these books.


Do check out this website: www.NANOWRIMO.org  Why? You'll find out!


So who has autumn birthdays? Well, of course, one of my favorite presidents, John Adams, would be 272 years old on Oct. 30, if he hadn't kicked the bucket back in 1826. And one of my favorite artists, Jan Vermeer, would be 375 on Oct. 31. And November is loaded with anniversaries of the births of all sorts of interesting people from Daniel Boone, Marie Antoinette, and Natalie Kinsey-Warnock (modern, excellent author) on the 2nd, to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and author Jonathan Swift on the 30th.

[www.famousbirthdays.com]
[www.theodoreroosevelt.org]

Other cool stuff:

[www.kidinfo.com]
[www.educationindex.com/history/]
[www.besthistorysites.net]
[www.pbs.org/history ]
[www.lewisandclarktrail.com, www.lewis-clark.org]
[www.simonsaysTEACH.com]

         
 

 
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