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Me and Mimi

 
  SO, as I write, the lilacs, irises, and peonies have passed and world hereabouts is abloom with day lilies. The air is warm and full up with humidity and the daily possibility of thunder-boomers, while the atmosphere is fouled with dread & helplessness, giving the ongoing petro-spewage in the Gulf of Mexico. Ah well. my Betsy-Tacy Coloring Book is off to the printer. Do you know those Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace? A delightful distraction they are. Read more about them at www.betsy-tacysociety.org. We'll fly in the face of the world's sorrows, offset them with summertime and determined happiness.



(1.) Click over to my BOOKS page, please. You'll see about my HARRY BOOK, plus the new paperback  edition of my novel (darling of my heart, no foolin'), JUST For YOU to KNOW, and all the others. But you'll also find my NEW Laura Ingalls Wilder Coloring Book. Truly, more than a coloring book, my LIWCB is a 32-page collection of drawings, an Ingalls family CHRONOLOGY, as well as a fine introduction by Laura scholar and book buddy, Bill Anderson. www.williamandersonbooks.com

(2.) Really, this is shaping up to be a Laura summer. There's to be a fine new documentary (for which
I did a BUNCH of illustrations) about Mrs. Wilder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUvkRGsPSpg

Who produced it? Dean Butler, the gent who portrayed Almanzo Wilder on that long-gone, ever-to-be-syndicated television series.
 You'll see on my TRAVEL page that I'll be attending many a LIW event this summer including Laurapalooza 2010, up in Mankato, MN, a.k.a. "Deep Valley.". I reckon Mr. Butler will be there, too.

(3.) Should you wish to check out my public speaking brochure, CLICK HERE

(4.) If you go to http://timepiebytheslice.blogspot.com you'll arrive at my blogification on people and things historical.

(5.) If you visit this website: www.eyewitnesstohistory.com I'm betting you'll be as blown away as I was!

(6.) To learn about a bunch of us nonfiction authors, do please visit www.inkthinktank.com

(7.) I almost forgot: Judy Garland and my old dad would have turned 88 in June, on the 10th. Who else had a June birthday? Frank Lloyd Wright, architect; Composer, Cole Porter; Helen Keller, humanitarian & author. And Anne Frank, writer, was born June 12, 1929, on the 5th birthday of 41st President Geo. H.W. Bush. For birthdays, deathdays, anniversaries: www.brainyhistory.com