"Fever 1793" By Laurie Halse Anderson

Fever 1793

Book by Laurie Halse Anderson

88/251 # of pages read

Job: Illustrator

Hey,

So today is my first blog post about the amazing book fever. Fever is a great book set in the 1790's in Philadelphia. The main character of the book is called Mattie Cook who lives above her family coffee shop run by her Mother and Grandfather. There is an epidemic called the yellow fever this summer which has killed many people! What will the family do?

As I mentioned above, this time my job this time was illustrating! I drew a picture of one of the scenes which scared me the most. The scene showed above in the picture all started when Mattie's mother got the fever. She was brought upstairs in order to rest and hopefully heal. Mattie was not allowed to see her, but she snuck up to the room in order to check on her mother. Mattie was very worried and let down a few tears as she saw her resting mother. The next second the whole place was a mess! Her mother was coughing blood and throwing the pillows around which is the scene above. Next, Mattie called Eliza, the cook, to help her! But Eliza was gone, so Mattie had to deal with mom by herself.

I decided to draw this because my mother is very dear to my heart and I couldn't go without her even for a day. The fact that Mattie snuck in is brave and I would do the same! I really appreciate what this girl would do for her family. I also could imagine this scene in my head, the way Mattie cries and hopes her mother will stay alive.

Thats it for this time!

Shelly