Just finished reading Mama’s Window to my class. They want to know if there is MORE. They love it. We are playing around with it now. I loved this book when I read it last summer, but watching the faces and enjoying it with the kids as I read it to them was incredible. They always like to hear good stories, but they just begged for the next chapter. it is so rich with detail and description, they were there in searching for snags in Sun lake, smelling te catfish frying and living every moment.
Jean Turney, 4th grade teacher, St. John the baptist School, St. Louis, MO.

(Note from Lynn) Jean received a National Geographic grant to have me come work with her students in a storytelling workshop, which will include my program on the development of Mama’s Window. The children have been researching trees in Forest Park, St. Louis, and some of the children, inspsired by the setting in Mama’s Window, have chosen to study cypress trees growing there in a simulated swamp in the aviary of the St. Louis zoo.