Debbie Levy
Debbie Levy (Col ’78 CM)
Debbie Levy’s (Col ’78 L/M) latest book for children is Soldier Song: A True Story of the Civil War (Disney-Hyperion 2017). It’s the story of an impromptu concert that took place after the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, when the armies of North and South went into winter camp on opposite sides of the Rappahannock River. The terrible battle left soldiers on both sides bitter and angry, yet a song about missing home—that old tune, “Home, Sweet Home”—drew Federals and Confederates together for one night. Interwoven with soldiers’ letters and journal entries, this true story shows the power of music, and the possibility of seeing the humanity in those with whom we are locked in conflict. In other news, Debbie’s New York Times-bestselling 2016 picture book, I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark has been awarded the National Jewish Book Award and the Sydney Taylor Book Award.
Debbie Levy (Col ’78 CM)
Debbie Levy (Col ’78 L/M) has published her latest children’s picture book, I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark (Simon & Schuster, 2016). The book tells the story of the Supreme Court justice’s life through the lens of her many dissents; it shares the message that disagreeing doesn’t have to make you disagreeable and that important change happens one disagreement at a time. I Dissent has received an Orbis Pictus Honor award from the National Council of Teachers of English and a Eureka! Gold Award from the California Reading Association.