My eldest daughter’s class is doing a unit on mysteries, and one of the books the class is reading is Ellen Raskin‘s novel The Westing Game. My daughter’s reading a different one, because she’s already read that one—I suggested it to her, because it’s one of those books I loved as a child and still love now. On a whim, I looked Raskin up on Wikipedia, and was interested to find that she had donated the manuscript of The Westing Game to her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin; they have made portions of it available online, accompanied by audio of Raskin talking through the manuscript. I haven’t had time to fully explore this yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
