FB: Tell us two good reasons to pick up your book!

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KMG: I love this question! While the flood happened almost 60 years ago, it has contemporary importance. CEDAF holds conferences about it, Mud Angels still return for flood anniversaries, and many say that the mud smell still wafts through grates on especially hot days. The flood lasted eighteen hours, but lessons learned and restoration needs persist. Even now, children treat visiting Mud Angels like celebrities. They are a symbol of what’s possible. As the American Library Association’s Booklist review said, the book shares a “true episode worth commemorating.” Secondly, I recently had the honor of seeing a video of a visiting parent reading my book to a third-grade class. At the story’s end, a child on camera found out that her grandmother was one of the original Mud Angels. She hugged the book (and I teared up)! The parent asked the class: “How can we be inspired by this book?” Another child answered, "They were teenagers and that proves that kids and teenagers can change the world!” I could not have asked for a better answer to the reader’s question or to yours!