Today I received a lovely email from a woman in Alabama. Her son’s 2nd grade class is doing a “Living Museum” project. The students pick a famous American, researches this person and then dresses up like the person and reads aloud biographical information to parents, grandparents, and visitors that come that morning to listen to all the “biographers” at the school!

The kid chose me.

WHAT!?

I thought it had to be a mistake. Surely he meant Marc Brown, the author of the Arthur books. Nope. He meant me. He told his mom he knew about my adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days. She also told me they picked from a list of famous people.

WHAT!?

I’m barely known in my own family let alone outside my home and well enough to make a list of famous Americans at a school in Alabama. I can only imagine the day of the presentation. “Hello, I’m George Washington. I’m the father of our country.” “Hello, I’m Ben Franklin. I discovered electricity.” “Hello, I’m Mark Brown. I wrote the joke: ‘I heard you stole a pheasant. — A paltry crime.'”

So this is the look he’ll be going for:

The mom is going to send me a picture of her son dressed like me. I can’t wait to see it.

One thing I have to say about this kid: he’s got great taste in famous Americans.