Q is for Robert Quackenbush

Robert Quackenbush – Where He Fits In History

Robert Quackenbush was born in 1929 in California, months before the stock market crash and months after the St. Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago. It was the year that the Vatican became an independent state, separate from Italy, and the Bay Bridge which collapsed in the 1989 quake in the San Francisco Bay Area, first opened.

 

Daughter of Liberty is a labor of love from the author to his ancestor.

Quackenbush’s older books strike a deep, old childhood familiarity with me when I look at the covers. I suspect that a lot of them were in the classroom libraries of my childhood and I just don`t remember. These are some wonderful tales to share with your young ones and children who are ready for those early chapter books. Revive a classic author!

Daughter of Liberty is the true story of a woman who braved danger to be a messenger for General Washington during the Revolutionary War. And that woman is the author’s great, great, great, great Aunt Wyntje (Wyn) Quackenbosch (Quackenbush) Mabie!

 

Selected Books

• Daughter of Liberty
• Henry Goes West
• Cable Car to Catastrophe
• Clementine
• Piet Potter’s First Case
• Lost in the Amazon: A Miss Mallard Mystery
• There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 Told with Song & Pictures
• Old Silver Leg Takes Over!: A Story Of Peter Stuyvesant

Come back next week and read about another author, or click here to read some past authors we highlighted.

But in the meantime, join me and my fantastic co-hosts as we link up all of our “Q is for” posts!

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