I know it's baseball season, but I've got football on my mind. I'm counting down to the September release of Button Down, an underdog story about Ned Button, Greatgranddaddy Ike, and the opening of Iowa (now Kinnick) Stadium during the 1929 Hawkeye football season.
For a sneak peek at Button Down, check out Candlewick's website, and take a gander at this sample chapter.
Ned's cousin Tugs, heroine of The Luck of the Buttons, gets another opportunity to shine as well, when The Luck of the Buttons is released in paperback this August.
And rounding out my very Button summer, I'm immersed in fascinating research and reading about the first summer of the Civil War for the telling of Greatgranddy Ike's boyhood story. Look for more Ike news in 2013!
While you wait for football season to begin, fill up on sports reading with John Coy's excellent 4 For 4 series, and take this list of sports books to your library.
Happy summer!