https://www.karencushman.com Newbery award-winning author Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:52:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/www.karencushman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/favicon.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://www.karencushman.com 32 32 197177275 https://www.karencushman.com/picker-of-fleas-and-maggots-and-burrs/ Tue, 27 May 2014 12:00:43 +0000 https://www.karencushman.com/blog/?p=1144 Read more]]> Professor Nancy Roser, of the University of Texas at Austin, shaped a poem from her children’s literature seminar students’ resonant phrases after they read Catherine, Called Birdy. Prof. Rosen framed the poem with a page from the original manuscript, which she studied at the Kerlan Collection of the University of Minnesota, where my working materials are housed. Thank you to Nancy and her students! This is a toast I will always cherish.

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