My thirteen-year-old niece, Chloe Meyer-Gehrke, has read my novels inspired by my father’s World War II experiences. She also came to my book release parties and sat in the front row!
She got interested in the way Jewish refugees were … Read More
The French Resistance
A Guest Post by Educator Catherine Maryse Anderson
Black Radishes, the novel that precedes Skating with the Statue of Liberty, offers readers a look into the everyday people who risked their lives for the … Read More
Tin Can Drives
A Guest Post by Educator Catherine Maryse Anderson
In the final chapter of Skating with the Statue of Liberty, Gustave and September Rose get “into a long line of kids carrying crates and bags full … Read More
Anti-Semitism in the United States in the 1940s
A Guest Post by Catherine Maryse Anderson
Susan Lynn Meyer’s novel Skating With the Statue of Liberty opens in 1942 on board a transport ship bound for America. Gustave and his … Read More
The Double V Campaign
A Guest Post by Educator Catherine Maryse Anderson
Today we are surrounded by logos and slogans designed to capture our attention, draw us to a product, or encourage our participation in a group or movement. … Read More
Today, we have something special: a guest post about SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY from a teacher from Portland, Maine! Thank you, Catherine!
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS DURING WORLD WAR II
By Educator Catherine Mayrse Anderson
Anne Frank, famous the … Read More
I’m the daughter of a child refugee.
My widowed grandmother came here with her two children in November of 1942, making them among the last Jews to escape from Nazi-occupied France. They had been helped by HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant … Read More
Most likely there are some songs mentioned in Skating with the Statue of Liberty that you do not know, unless you happen to be old enough to remember the year 1942.
Maybe you would like to hear some of them.… Read More
Sometimes, when you write fiction, something odd occurs. Out of the blue, it feels as if your work has become real.
This has happened to me twice before. Once was after I had finished writing my first novel, Black Radishes… Read More
Gustave first notices Mr. Quong’s Hand Laundry because there is a cat in the window, lying on a red and gold blanket in a patch of sunshine. He taps on the window to say hello to her.
Later, when he … Read More