Susan Stoderl
- May 9
- 2 min
The Shockingly Modern 19th-Century Anglo-Irish Novels of Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth began writing in a variety of forms in the mid-1790s when she was in her late twenties, including novels for adults and...
Susan Stoderl
- May 2
- 2 min
Anglo-Irish Writer of Children’s Stories and Novels About Irish Life | Maria Edgeworth (1768—1849)
Maria Edgeworth is a woman writer I would have liked to have known. Edgeworth lived in England prior to her family moving to their estate...
Susan Stoderl
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
On Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time was almost not published because according to its author, it “dealt overtly with the problem of evil, and it was really...
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 19, 2022
- 1 min
Bad Guys | Mikhail and Dimitri
Today, we're going to start meeting the Bad Guys in the first book of Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series | Mission 1: All in a...
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 2, 2022
- 1 min
Late Bloomer | Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) knew at age twenty that she would die from the same inherited polycystic kidney disease as her father did when...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min
A Family by Choice — Not Blood
One of the major themes of Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers series is the creation of her own unique family as an orphan. This would...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 22, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Zelda Screech Cat
Meet Zelda Screech Cat
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 15, 2022
- 1 min
Today Meet Wahoo the Raven, a very Dapper Dude
From Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series | Mission 1: All in a Day's Work He looked around his home with pride. “My, my, my, I have...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 8, 2022
- 1 min
Introducing the Cru Crew
From Sophia and the Bright Red Sneakers, Mission 1: All in a Day's Work. Meet Ella Cru "As if to remind Sophia of her status, standing in...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 1, 2022
- 2 min
Meet Pedro Gonzalez
Pedro Gonzalez is Sophia’s best friend and co-conspirator in sleuthing and improving the world one mission at a time. He is ten years...
Susan Stoderl
- Jun 24, 2022
- 2 min
Meet Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers
Sophia MacGregor, a.k.a., Boss-In-Chief, is a precocious ten-year-old who is in the eighth-grade honors class at the posh James Samuel...