Wheelchair Dance Comes to Wisconsin
©2016 Harold W. Thorpe and Karyn Saemann Bellamy’s Ball, Harold W. Thorpe’s 2015 picture book about a Wisconsin girl who uses a wheelchair and learns to dance alongside her friends, is fiction. In real life, the idea that everyone can dance, regardless of physical...
Kid’s Corner – Where are you from?
“I wish that I could find some clothes to wear for the play. Mother said they’d be different from mine. She said that Sophia wore frontier clothing, whatever that is.” –Aubrey’s Attic In Aubrey’s Attic, nine-year-old Aubrey lands the role of Sophia...
Kid’s Corner – Historical Games
What games did your great-grandparents play outside at lunchtime or during gym class? Play, Comprising Games for the Kindergarten, Playground, Schoolroom and College, a book for teachers in 1920, lists lots of games you might not have heard of today, but that look...
Kid’s Corner- Historical Dressup
Halloween is coming at the end of this month. This is a good time to explore costume ideas! Take yourself back in time with a historical dress-up day. Filling a box or dresser drawer with fun, old clothes doesn’t have to cost much. Vintage clothing stores, antique...
New Goodfriends Storybook
Bellamy’s Ball, the latest in the Goodfriends Storybooks series is now available to order from Little Creek Press. Like Harold Thorpe’s other children’s chapter books, Bellamy’s Ball is set in Wisconsin and draws on Wisconsin history while it...
Harold William Thorpe novels are now included on Goodreads! 