Civil War Battleship: The Monitor

A former educator, Gare Thompson has written best-selling classroom programs as well as numerous children’s books. His specialty is historical fiction. Thompson lives in Massachusetts.

Larry Day is the award-winning illustrator of several picture books about American history, including Colonial Voices: Hear them Speak and Voices from the Oregon Trail by Kay Winters and George Did It by Suzanne Tripp Jurmain, He has exhibited watercolors extensively as well. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois.