Kathryn Swift Clapp was no wallflower—just look at this dance card from her senior prom in 1930, where she was never without a partner. Her favorite was clearly a fellow
okay. i can t hear it. i just wanted to thank all of you for coming out. it s an honor for me to be here. i don t know that i ve ever done an occasion like this, and i do believe i probably write better than i speak. so i will just talk for a few minutes. there s so much in the book that it s, i certainly can t talk a lot, too much about it, but i will start with the story about a young man i met yesterday who s 11 years old, and he s avery, a young african-american man. he gave me his mother showed him the book and some other books i had written, and he looked at the title, and you could see his mind, the wheels in his mind were grinding, the gears were. and he was trying to figure out how to ask me about it without being insulting. [laughter] because he clearly thought i had it wrong. [laughter] so he read it, and he said, well, what s your response to that? [laughter] and what i found over the years is that it s such i love, love talking to children because they are so