On Writing

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!

Just called my local B&N. They have five on hand and several are being held for customers at the front desk.

Traughber 7th graders in Oswego, Illinois hug Edith after hearing her story at a school presentation.

This is the organization that arranged for the German translation of MOTHERLAND. It also pushed for the installation of the Stumbling Stones in Stockstadt, Germany.     http://jn1.tv/video/news/german-society-to-preserve-jewish-culture.html

  Thank you, Gower Middle School students, for the warm welcome and the beautiful day.

Square Fish will release the paperback edition of IS IT NIGHT OR DAY? on March 18, 2014. The book includes bonus material -- a Q/A with the author, a 3,000-word story of how 8th graders reunited the two Holocaust refugees featured in the book, and the Teachers Guide, which is aligned with the new Core Curriculum Standards. Fern Schumer Chapman is scheduling school speeches tied to the paperback release at ...

      Here is part of what the mayor, who expected a fight, told the Community Council this week:       Stockstadt am Rhine had a relatively small Jewish community,  composed mainly of Westerfeld, Kahn, and Gutjahr families. The survivors and descendants of the Westerfelds have explicitly expressed interest and agreed to the stumbling blocks. The story of this family is well known, in part because of the ...

Here is part of the article that ran in the German newspaper, RIED ECHO, on September 12, 2013:   MUNICIPALITY PARLIAMENT Stockstädter decides to lay stumbling blocks against forgetting STOCKSTADT. The Community Council decided Tuesday that Stumbling Stones will be laid in memory of those deported during the Nazi regimes. Bürgermeister Thomas Ra Herschel (CDU) had expected a controversial discussion in April, but his the Council voted in unity. No ...

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