The marker is bigger than I thought!
Grover’s Mill! Yeah, I went there, 75 years later. There’s a park and a plaque, and signs along a path with background info about Orson Welles and the panic broadcast of 1938, all on the exact spot where the Martians were said to have landed!
Grovers Pond is adjacent.
Hot off the cutting room floor! Here’s the video of launch day for Radio Girl, including must-see clips of folks whistling “like canaries.”
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Carol Brendler is the author of the young adult novel RADIO GIRL (Holiday House) September 5, 2013.
Coming 2014: A picture book, NOT VERY SCARY, illustrated by Greg Pizzoli, from FSG.
Also by Carol Brendler: WINNIE FINN, WORM FARMER (FSG, 2009) a picture book illustrated by Ard Hoyt.
What larks! I was able to join Trent Reedy and the cast of the SCBWI-Illinois booth at the Illinois Reading Council earlier this month. Talked to educators and school librarians about my books AND went to a banquet which featured none other than the inimitable Katherine Paterson. See more: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151356624122957.1073741825.690027956&type=1&l=580472c20d.
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