Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed
For Willie Bea, Halloween was the best time of the year. Relatives came to visit. There was cooking, baking, dressing up and the special fun of an authorized “begging for treats.”
But this Halloween was destined to be different. It was 1938 and the day of the Orson Welles broadcast that would terrify people across the country. The Wing and the Mills families were no exception during this bizarre, drama-filled time.
Willie Bea and her extended family are among the most intriguing characters Virginia Hamilton has created. Ms. Hamilton’s account of one day in their lives, and a portentous night of reckoning, is a gripping, original and comic tale.
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Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Esther Hamilton (1934–2002) was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal.
Named for her grandfather's home state, Virginia Hamilton grew up in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She attended Antioch College and then transferred to Ohio State University. She married the poet Arnold Adoff in 1960.
Hamilton's first book, as a child was "The Novel". Then came Zeely, published in 1967, and won numerous awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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