Awards

Good Reads Review of IS IT NIGHT OR DAY? Lynne rated it 5 of 5 stars Shelves: children, children-of-all-ages, historical-fiction, middle-grade, realistic-fiction, strong-girls, young-adult This is a very, very good book! It is historical fiction based on the life of the author's mother. It begins in a small town in Nazi Germany where we meet Edith just before her family sends her off to live in Chicago. She is going ...

My friend, Jürgen Flügge (Mina's son), just found an old suitcase full of postcards and letters from my mother, Edith, to her dear German friend, Mina. This is the first postcard 12-year-old Edith sent to 19-year-old Mina from the ship, the Deutschland, in March 1938! Here is what Edith wrote: My dear Mina, I don't have much time. They are calling me. Just wanted to send you heartfelt greetings and ...

Evanston Township High School (ETHS) is my alma mater. Nice to go back and visit!

Here's the Daily Herald story about the Gavin South Middle School appearance: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140403/news/140409404/

Student interviews FSC and her mother, Edith

The Reunion, an Author Guest Post by Fern Schumer Chapman “But what happened to Gerda?” a middle-school student asked after a presentation about my book, Is It Night or Day?. The historical novel tells the story of a little-known American program that rescued 1,000 children from Nazi Germany and chronicles the friendship of two 12-year-old refugees: Edith Westerfeld, who grew up to be my mother, and Gerda Katz, whom Edith ...

http://gazebonews.com/2014/03/20/now-in-paperback-historical-novel-by-local-author/

Marking the release of the paperback edition, here's a blog I wrote about the reunion of the two Holocaust refugees featured in my book. http://mackidsbooks.com/the-reunion-an-author-guest-post-by-fern-schumer-chapman/

  ...To buy her life story in paperback!