This weekly podcast invites you inside the minds and processes of kidlit history book creators, from idea to publication. Join the conversation each Wednesday! This week, host Selene Castrovilla chats with author Beth Anderson about her book "Thomas Jefferson's Battle for Science: Bias, Truth, and a Mighty Moose," a picture book about Thomas Jefferson's use of scientific methods to challenge faulty information and bias. The book tells the story of how Jefferson used scientific inquiry to prove that the new United States was just as good as the Old World. Jefferson was a science enthusiast who loved to measure the natural world, but he was furious when French scientist Count Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon published an encyclopedia that claimed America was inferior to Europe. Jefferson knew Buffon had never been to America, and he used scientific methods to gather evidence to prove Buffon wrong. #thomasjefferson #historyforchildren #podcast