Step into the Past: Historical Fiction
Friday, May 14 | 12:00pm CT
Meet Liesl Shurtliff
author of the Time Castaways trilogy and The (Fairly) True Tales series
Do you have any hidden talents?
I’m great at doing headstands!
Who is your favorite fictional character?
Luna Lovegood.
What is your favorite candy?
Caramel M&Ms or Cadbury Mini Eggs (when they’re in season).
What are you working on right now?
A ghost story and a silly fairy tale chapter book.
Top 10 Places/Eras Liesl would time travel...
100 years in the future
Elizabethan England (See some original Shakespeare, meet Queen Elizabeth)
Mesozoic Era (Dinosaurs!)
250 B.C. Egypt, Library of Alexandria (Couldn't read anything, but I'm sure I'd love it!)
August 6, 2015, New York City, Opening night of Hamilton
1893 Chicago, World's Colombian Exposition
1000 years in the future
1503 Italy (I want to watch Leonardo da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa and ask him some questions.)
The beginning of the world.
The end of the world.
What is Time Castaways: The Mona Lisa Key about?
Mateo, Ruby, and Corey Hudson’s parents don’t have too many rules. It’s the usual stuff: Be good. Do your homework. And never ride the subway without an adult, EVER. But when the siblings wake up late for school, they have no choice but to break a rule. The Hudson siblings board the subway in Manhattan and end up on a frigate ship in Paris…in the year 1911.
About Liesl
Liesl Shurtliff is the author of the New York Times bestselling (Fairly) True Tales series, including Rump, which was awarded an ILA Children’s Book Award and named to over two dozen state award lists. She was born in Utah, the fifth of eight children, and now lives in Chicago with her husband and four children. Visit her at lieslshurtliff.com or on Twitter and Instagram @lieslshurtliff.
Click here for teacher guides for Liesl’s books.