From: Lbhcove at aol.com <Lbhcove>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:17:49 EDT

The increased demand for nonfiction reading for the lower grades in school has helped push these publishing efforts as well, but the red, white, and blue is very evident!

Reply to the above from Lee Bennett Hopkins:
  I am NOT proud of this fact.
  But...in 1994...long before the tragic event...I did the anthology HAND IN HAND: AN AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH POETRY (Simon & Schuster). The volume sold well enough to keep it in print for many years. AFTER 9/11, sales began to pick up dramatically. I couldn't understand it until I read on the internet that anything depicting the twin towers became
'collectible." I still did not connect! A friend called to tell me the towers appear on the BACK JACKET, ironically showing two young children waving to the towers.
  I got chills. Neither I nor the illustrator, Peter Fiore, would never have imagined.
  LBH
  www.leebennetthopkinsbooks.com
Received on Sun 10 Sep 2006 10:17:49 AM CDT