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“It’s difficult for someone these days, to understand what it was like, to suddenly have a ray of light in the dark. That’s really what it was like.” District of Columbia student Ken Howard regarding the 1963 March on Washington On August 28,1963, over 250,000 gathered for what came to be known as the March… Continue reading The March on Washington through the Eyes of a Child
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” -- Orson Welles After many hours of worry and rewriting, I finally finished the first draft of my middle reader novel, Sarah Finn. Much of the anxiety and editing involved in coming to that milestone regarded whether or not… Continue reading Does a Children’s Book Need a Happy Ending?
PortiaLily Taylor 