elementary reading
Parent’s Frustration Leads to New Career in Educational Publishing
Thursday, January 31st, 2008When Chicago mother, Jil Ross, couldn’t find African American fiction to inspire her son, who was a late reader, she created her own series, The Shenanigans Series. The story reported in the Chicago Tribune indicates that by keeping a journal of her own children’s everyday escapades, Ross created an African-American brother-and-sister pair, Foster and Marie Blake.
After persistent [...]