I was at the C.S. Huck Children's Literature Festival yesterday, where author Candace Fleming spoke of remediation, and how it affects the way she writes now. She practically pulled a page out of Bolter and Grusin's book, Remediation, when she complained of how CNN uses the "split screen" (191) for its newscasts, causing an ADD effect that the viewer has now taken on as "normal." As she writes history, she is under greater pressure to attract and retain readers, who are, she worries, accustomed to "visible multiplicity" (190). Fleming shared with us a page from her book, Abe and Mary, which she originally wanted to name Abe and His Babe. The page was a collage of pictures, paragraphs, graphics, bullets, and captions. She said that the reader no longer needed to start at the beginning of the book. He or she could jump in anywhere, as well as to anywhere, in the book without confusion. The narrative is gone. Yet, while she is still adjusting to this new style of layout, she is also writing old fashioned children's books in the normal 32 page layout. With one foot in the past, and one in the future, Candace Fleming is coming to terms with remediation.