Naperville Reads!
This morning I am flying out of Chicago after an amazing week of school visits with Naperville Reads, sponsored by Anderson’s Bookshop. I came to celebrate the publication of my new book, Why’d They Wear That?. 
Along with seven other nonfiction authors, I visited six schools and participated in an evening panel. It was a jam-packed few days, but incredibly fun.
My “team” included the authors Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Susan Buckley, and Elspeth Leacock, who collaborated on writing the book Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March.
Susan, Lynda, and Elspeth, my new BFFs
Lynda is an amazing speaker, and Susan and Elspeth are fantastic writers and historians. Lynda had the kids utterly, totally rapt as she described how she was the youngest member of the Selma Voting Rights march. She’s a natural storyteller. If you haven’t read this book, run, don’t walk, to your local indie bookstore and pick up a copy.
Also with us were William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind), Paige Rawl (Positive); and Sally Walker (Ghost Walls: The Story of a 17th Century Colonial Homestead). Here’s me with my fellow panelists.
I met so many great kids and librarians. Here are some pictorial highlights. 
The artists who made this poster
Me and Lynda at Anderson’s Bookshop
Huge thanks to Becky Anderson, owner of Anderson’s Bookshop, all the amazing people at Anderson’s who helped with the logistics, Tracey and Karen from Media Masters for all the arranging, Bill Young from Midwest Media for getting us to all those schools on time, and to my publishers at National Geographic, for sending me.
I think I’ve used about seventeen superlatives in this post, but I’m too tired to correct it. And it WAS amazing and incredible.
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