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Naperville Sun on upcoming OWN show (Jan.3, 2013)

Naperville Sun reports on OWN show featuring Madison Jr. High students' role in reuniting two Holocaust survivors pulse-oprah-citys-chance-for-new-website-3d-at-ogden-6.html Here’s a sneak peek at the OWN show: Sneak-Peek-Watch-the-First-5-Minutes-of-Lost-and-Found-Video#ixzz2FQhkBqo6

Coming Jan 3, 2013: OWN show features Edith/Gerda reunion

Lost and Found/ Edith and Gerda reunion story

Happy Halloween!

Ah, yes....Motherland!

How Germany memorializes victims…

A reader sent me his documentary trailer capturing the installation of stumbling stones in Germany to memorialize his family. The stones are a subject of great debate in Germany. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYdkFizIaM&feature=youtu.be

Thinking, feeling, and the creative process

Loved this segment on creativity: http://www.pw.org/content/maira_kalman

My new book project

Simon & Schuster Aladdin will publish my next book in 2014. If you'd like to follow my progress, please like this link: http://www.facebook.com/MotherlandIsItNightOrDay Here's info about the subject of my next book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7VA-PbJR_I Surviving Theresienstadt: The Michael Gruenbaum Collection (Curators' Corner #8) www.youtube.com Judith Cohen, the Museum's photo archivist, explains in this episode of Curators' Corner how a scrapbook and "memory book" from the Michael Gruenbaum Collect...

NPR: Stumbling upon memorials to Nazi victims

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/31/153943491/stumbling-upon-miniature-memorials-to-nazi-victims?sc=tw&cc=share

Honored to be…

Is It Night or Day? is a South Carolina Junior Book Award nominee for 2012-2013. In addition, the book is included on the following lists: * Maine State Student Book Award Master List * Bank Street College’s “Best Children’s Books of the Year” Master List * Tennessee YA Volunteer State Book Award Master List * Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” 2010 I'm also honored that Is It Night ...

Book school visits now!

I am scheduling school visits now for Fall 2012. Please book early for best rates. Visit this website for details: http://www.authorsillustrators.com/schumer_chapman/schumer_chapman.htm