Noblemania

By my request, the back covers of both Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman and Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman ha...

My book Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story is the true story of Nobuo Fujita, a Japanese pilot who becam...

Today, which happens to be three years to the day when Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story was released, ...

I found a minor goof midway through my book Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story (I wish they’d add back page ...

To my surprise, I only now realized that I had not yet shared here a startling behind-the-scenes fact related to  Thirty Minutes Over Oregon...

My college friend/fifth grade teacher Sara Peters told me that Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot ’ s World War II Story is one o...

Audrey Coleman, the museum director of the  Bob Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, kindly interviewed me about Thirty M...

The children of the girls whose story I tell in Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real kindly posed with the...

In 2018, two nonfiction picture books I wrote were published, Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real  and Thi...

In 1997, I saw this obituary in the New York Times : In 2007, I began to write a picture book on Nobuo Fujita. In 2014, after aroun...

Kathleen McBroom kindly interviewed me for the 9/19 issue of Booklist . Most of her   questions are ones I haven’t gotten before (whi...

The city of Bridgeport, CT runs an annual program called Read Aloud Day; a committee chooses a different book for every elementary grade le...

The embargo has lifted!  In March, I learned that Thirty Minutes Over Oregon has been selected for the International Literacy Associatio...

I don’t work at the State Department in Washington DC, but I took one of my kids—and my wife—there on Take Your Child to Work Day 2019. Tec...

From 4/15-18/19, I was an honored guest and Featured Speaker at the legendary Texas Library Association Conference, this year held in Aust...

I’m honored to report that both of my 2018 books made the Bank Street College of Education list of the Best Children’s Books of the Year (a...

The Cooperative Children's Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison annually compiles a list of th...